University Advancement is welcoming a new leader as its successful $1.7 billion capital campaign wraps up this fall.
Marti Heil, ’76, returns to MSU and succeeds Robert Groves, who had helmed the office since 2009 and headed up its latest fundraising campaign. He announced his resignation in July.
Heil, a Lansing native, retired in spring 2017 as vice president for development and alumni relations at Virginia Commonwealth University.
She is already familiar with the Green and White: In addition to earning her advertising degree at MSU, she spent 30 years of her career in University Advancement.
“I’m ecstatic to be returning to Michigan State,” she said in a news release.
“The university is completing a very successful capital campaign, Empower Extraordinary, which is fantastic. But there is more work to be done and I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and jump right in.”
Groves joined MSU after four years working in development at the University of Michigan, where he provided day-to-day direction for U-M’s capital campaign, which raised $3.1 billion and is believed to be the most successful fundraising campaign at a public university at that time.
In February, he’ll join the University of Texas at Austin as the senior associate vice president for development.
