Brian Baker
Associate Vice President and Director of Principal Gifts
Department: University Advancement
Email: bbaker7@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-7453
Brief Biography
Brian Baker is the Associate Vice President for University Advancement and Director of Principal Gifts. He leads a team of people in the areas of Major Gifts, Planned Giving, Presidential Stewardship, Campaign Operations, Prospect Research and Corporate and Foundation Relations.
Baker joined Elon as a Major Gifts Officer in September 2005, and later served as Director of Major Gifts, and Executive Director of Major and Planned Giving. Before joining Elon, Baker spent five years at the University of Louisville, first in athletics and then as Associate Director of Development for the College of Arts and Sciences.
In March 2013, Baker was recognized by The Triad Business Journal as one of its Top 40 under 40 business leaders. He is a 2000 graduate of Wake Forest University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and minored in journalism. He lives in Burlington, N.C., with wife Katy and their three children, Jack, Andrew, and Caroline