MEET THE STAFF

Jeremy Wang, a veteran fundraiser who served two years as Associate Athletic Director and Chief Development Officer at the University of California, Berkley, was named Senior Associate Athletics Director / Assistant Vice President for Development at Temple University in June, 2017.

At Cal, Wang served in a leadership role on both the Athletic Director’s Cabinet and the Vice Chancellor for University Development and Alumni Relations Campaign Management Team. In that role he led a holistic advancement unit in the University’s decentralized advancement model, producing over $49 million in gifts and pledges during his tenure ($27m in FY16 and $22m to date FY17). He managed a staff of up to 18 full-time professionals in the areas of principle and major giving, annual giving, alumni relations, and athletic advancement operations. He was also responsible for closing gifts for annual, capital, and endowment priorities while overseeing and managing a one million dollar operating budget.

In his two years at Cal, Wang executed a successful reorganization and rebranding of the Bears development unit to generate philanthropic revenue and implemented a unit philosophy and culture to focus on classic relationship-based philanthropy while attempting to grow revenue beyond transactional benefits based giving. This resulted in 10% growth in annual operating revenue and 5% growth in donor count during the 2015-16 fiscal year.

Wang previously served four years in the Villanova Athletic Department, including his final year as the Executive Director of the Villanova Athletic Fund (2014-15). He managed a comprehensive athletics development unit supporting the Wildcat student-athletes. In that capacity, he personally closed $16 million in gifts and the Villanova Athletic Fund raised $59.4 million during his time at the school. Over his final two years at VU, he oversaw activities that resulted in $36.3 million in gifts, including an at the time school-record $22.4 million during the 2014 fiscal year.

Wang specifically served as the lead fundraiser for the Villanova football program and led a strategic campaign to fund an $18 million football operations building and student-athlete performance center, as well as an $800,000 football locker room and weight room renovation.

From 2009-11, Wang was on the staff at the University of Idaho, serving as an Assistant Athletic Director and Executive Director of the Vandal Scholarship Fund.

Wang began his career at his alma mater, Washington State University, serving as the Cougars’ Assistant Ticket Manager. Wang earned his bachelor’s degree in communication (’04) as well as an MBA (’07) from WSU.

Wang is married to Ivy Rae Wang and the couple has three sons: Isaac, Jonah and Micah.

Lauren Adee was promoted to Assistant Athletics Director for Major Gifts in March, 2016. She provides leadership for the major gifts team, guides the strategic direction of major gifts for the department, and oversees the Director of Major Gifts. In her second year, Adee held a leadership role on a team that increased total fundraising by 234%. In addition to these responsibilities, she also manages and oversees the development budget for the department. Adee currently serves as an adjunct professor in the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management teaching the Fundraising and Development course in the Masters of Science in Sports Business program.

In her previous role as the Director of Development, she oversaw all aspects of the Annual Fund for the Owl Club. In addition to overseeing the Annual Fund, Adee also managed a major gift portfolio, served as the staff liaison for the Owl Club Board of Directors, and supervised special events, stewardship, strategic communications, marketing and the intern program. In her first year of overseeing the annual fund, the Owl Club increased membership by 52% and recorded the highest annual giving year ever, increasing giving by 25%.

Prior to her arrival back to Temple’s campus, Adee most recently worked at the University of New Mexico as the Director of Annual Giving (2013-2014). Within the year at New Mexico she increased annual giving to the Lobo Scholarship Fund by $300,000 and recorded an all-time high 4,490 members to the Lobo Club. Before The University of New Mexico, she served as the Assistant Director of Marketing and Promotions and Assistant Director of Development, respectively, at New Mexico State University (2011-2013). Prior to New Mexico State, Adee worked for the Atlanta Hawks and former Atlanta Thrashers as a Group Sales Account Executive (2008-2011).

Adee is a 2008 graduate of Temple University from the Fox Business School with a degree in marketing, and she is a former men’s basketball manager, serving two years under Hall of Fame Coach John Chaney and two years under current Head Coach Fran Dunphy. In 2012 Adee received her master’s in business administration from New Mexico State. She also received a certificate of completion from the prestigious NCAA Leadership Institute in 2015 and is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA) and the National Association of Athletic Development Directors (NAADD).

Patrick McLaughlin, a two-time alum of Temple University, joined the Athletic Development staff as an Assistant Athletic Director for Individual Giving in December, 2016. McLaughlin is a familiar face to Temple Athletics after being both a student-athlete and coach for men's gymnastics as well as a previous graduate assistant for the development office.

McLaughlin returned to Temple after spending just over two years working for the Nittany Lion Club at Penn State University. He was an assistant director for the Nittany Lion Club: Annual Fund from September of 2014 until August of 2016, at which time he was promoted to interim assistant athletic director for the Nittany Lion Club: Annual Fund. McLaughlin oversaw all aspects of the Levi Lamb annual fund in his most recent role, providing oversight and strategic vision for the 2017 renewal/acquisition campaign and developing a comprehensive development communications plan.

In the 2015 fiscal year, the annual fund grossed $16.6 million. McLaughlin led the inaugural intercollegiate athletics effort at Penn State around Giving Tuesday, which resulted in more than $200,000 dollars raised and over 100 hours of community service performed by student-athletes.

While earning his master's degree in sport business at Temple (2014), McLaughlin spent a semester as a graduate development assistant for the Temple Owl Club. Prior to that, he spent three seasons as an assistant men's gymnastics coach and was twice named the NCAA East Region Assistant Coach of the Year.

McLaughlin was an NCAA All-American First Team selection for the Owls in 2011, and was named both the PNC Male Student-Athlete of the Year as well as the NovaCare Comeback Student-Athlete of the Year. He earned his bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Temple in 2011.

Joe Morelli returned to Temple University in 2010 as a Gifts Officer after serving as Assistant Vice President for Development at Temple, Vice President for Advancement and Alumni Relations at Widener University and President of Lackawanna Junior College. During his initial tenure at Temple, he was instrumental in reaching the $60 million goal for the Centennial Challenge, Temple’s first capital campaign. As the fundraiser for Athletics at that time, Morelli helped grow the Owl Club. While at Widener and Lackawanna, he administered capital campaigns to provide growth and expansion for those campuses. Prior to his work at Temple, Morelli was an Assistant Professor in Business Administration, Assistant Football Coach and Director of Admissions at Delaware Valley College.

Morelli earned his Bachelor’s degree from Temple’s Fox School of Business then his Masters and Ed.D from the College of Education. He was a 4-year starter at quarterback and defensive back in the Coach Makris era of Temple Football and was given the Owl award as the outstanding student-athlete in his senior year. He also earned All East honors after his last varsity season.

As an alumnus, Morelli has served on the executive committee of the Temple University Alumni Association, President of the Fox School Alumni Association and President of the Varsity and Owl Club. He is currently scheduled to teach a non-credit course in Fundraising 101 at Temple and serves as an advisor to his fraternity, Phi Kappa Theta.

Fred Roland joined the Owl Club staff as Director of Major Gifts for Athletics in September, 2016. In this role, he will assist with high level fundraising activities, special projects, and fostering positive external relations and internal University relationships. Roland will manage a portfolio of 200-250 donors and prospects while also working closely with the coaches and support staff of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, and other members of the Temple University administration.

Roland began his collegiate athletics career at Duke University where he worked with the ticket office before transitioning to become the Iron Dukes Annual Fund and Varsity Club Assistant. His primary roles were to help maintain a database of 10,000+ donors and prospects and work closely with coaches for Duke’s 26 varsity sports to draft and distribute solicitation materials. He also worked alongside events staff to host student-athlete parents and former Duke student-athletes for local and regional gatherings. Right out of college, he worked as Ticket Supervisor and Group Sales Specialist for the Durham Performing Arts Center, host to over 200 traveling Broadway shows and concerts. He had brief stint as the Graduate Assistant for Academic Affairs in Athletics at North Carolina Central University. Most recently, Roland served as the Associate Director of the Army A Club at West Point where he managed a donor and prospect portfolio of 400+ constituents and oversaw the Army Friends Of sports-specific fundraising program for all 28 varsity sports.

Roland is a 2008 graduate of Duke University where he was a three-year starter and a four-year letter winner for the Blue Devil’s football team. Roland played in 46 career games with 35 career starts, started the final 23 games of his career, and recorded over 800 snaps in 2006 and 2008. Roland was also a co-recipient of Duke's Most Improved Offensive Player honor for the 2006 season.

Tatiana Motevalli-Oliner serves as the Assistant Director of Development on the Owl Club staff, overseeing the planning of special events, implementing an annual stewardship plan, and the marketing for the Athletics Development office, including email marketing and the TempleOwlClub.com website.

Prior to her arrival at Temple, Tatiana most recently worked at Johns Hopkins University as the Development Coordinator for Hopkins Athletics’ Blue Jays Unlimited (BJU). During her time with BJU, the organization set record membership numbers and broke their previous annual fund record as well. Tatiana also played a lead role in launching the Hopkins Athletics Student-Athlete Industry Nights, which has helped place numerous athletes in internships and jobs over the last two years.

Tatiana is a 2014 graduate of Emerson College with a degree in Marketing Communications, and was a four-year member of the Emerson College varsity softball team. While at Emerson, she served as the Annual Fund Assistant in the Office of Development & Alumni Relations. Currently, she continues to serve Emerson Athletics as a board member with the Emerson College Athletic Trust Fund. She is also the Pitching/Catching Coach for the Maryland Black Ice, an elite 18U gold showcase team from Cockeysville, MD.