Claudine Donikian, JD, MBA
President and CEO

Claudine Donikian, JD, MBA, is the president, chief executive officer, and chief marketing officer of Pentera, Inc. She oversees all aspects of Pentera's business and marketing strategies, as well as new-product development, with an emphasis on digital marketing. She advises a select group of Pentera's clients about marketing and eMarketing best practices and is a consultant to top planned giving departments such as Pomona College. Claudine is regarded as one of the foremost experts in marketing planned giving and is a frequent speaker on the national planned giving and AFP circuits. She also writes and conducts training modules for Pentera seminars.

Claudine directed Pentera's integrated marketing department, which includes both the interactive Web and print departments. Under her leadership, the interactive department and client base tripled in size.

Claudine graduated from Indiana University, received an MA in French from New York University, and holds a JD and an MBA from Boston College. She is an active member of PPP, PGGNE, and PPGGNY; she served on the planning committee of PPGGNY's all-day conference for three years; she is on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Children's Trust Fund; and she is a recent member of the steering committee of the Council at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Fluent in French, Claudine has also taught French at Boston-area colleges as an adjunct professor and at Boston-area corporations and adult education centers, where she was regarded as one of the best and most-motivating teachers.

Some of Claudine’s prior speaking engagements:

• St. Bonaventure University
• Western Regional Planned Giving Conference
• Chicago Council on Planned Giving Annual Symposium
• Northern California Planned Giving Conference
• Planned Giving Council of Central Massachusetts
• Partnership of Philanthropic Planning Orange County
• Suburban Chicago Planned Giving Council
• Gift Planning Group of Northeastern New York
• Savannah Area Planned Giving Council
• Central Ohio Planned Giving Council
• Planned Giving Roundtable of San Diego
• Planned Giving Council of Cape Cod
• New York Philanthropic Planning Symposium
• Mid-Michigan Planned Giving Council
• Planned Giving Council of Upstate New York
• Pentera's Comprehensive Planned Giving School
• Chesapeake Planned Giving Council
• AFP Massachusetts Chapter
• American Dental Association Foundation
• Planned Giving Group of Indiana
• Greater Chattanooga Area Planned Giving Council
• Northern Ohio Planned Giving Council
• Planned Giving Roundtable of Arizona
• AFP Connecticut Chapter
• Evansville Planned Giving
• Pentera Advanced Seminar ("Marketing Bequests," with Frank Minton)