Cam Kelly

Vice President for Principal Gifts
Duke University

Cam Kelly joined the University Development Office at Duke as assistant vice president for principal gifts programs in October 2008. She held advancement positions at her alma mater, Smith College, for seventeen years before coming to Duke; her most recent position was director of campaign & gift planning. She also served as special assistant to the president for strategic plan implementation in 2007 and 2008. Kelly held the position of director of planned gifts & bequests at Smith beginning in 1991, and assumed responsibility for the major gifts unit in 2005 and for campaign planning in 2007. Prior to joining Smith’s advancement office she was an investment advisor and portfolio manager with an investment management firm in Boston. She earned an A.B. degree from Smith College in mathematics, and she is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Kelly has served on the board of the American Council on Gift Annuities since 1994. She currently chairs its Rates Committee and serves as Vice Chair for the organization. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Planned Giving Today.