Nate Pine Hometown: Eagle Point, OR Position: Assistant Athletics Director, Major Gifts Alma Mater: University of California, Berkeley '10 Oregon State University '00

Nate Pine is a member of Sandy Barbour's senior staff and oversees all aspects of the major gift program at Cal. Pine has led the unprecedented fundraising effort on the $500M Building Champions - Endowing the Future campaign, the largest single unit capital campaign in the history of the University of California, Berkeley. The Building Champions campaign has had resounding success and is supporting the current construction of the state-of-the-art Student Athlete High Performance Center and the future renovation of historic California Memorial Stadium.

Prior to his arrival at Cal Pine spent three plus years at West Point where he established himself as a key member of Kevin Anderson's senior leadership team. At Army Pine was responsible for the development, evaluation, negotiation, administration and implementation of all business initiatives for Army Athletics. Pine represented Army's interests in the coordination and execution of the national "Request for Proposal (RFP)" and contract extension with CBS Sports for the 2010-2018 Army-Navy football games. He oversaw all elements of the Army-Navy commercial sponsorship rights which culminated in 2009 with a lucrative presenting sponsorship by USAA.

Prior to his promotion in the spring of 2008 Pine held the position of Associate Athletic Director for External Operations at Army. Pine oversaw incredible increases in athletics fundraising, major facility construction and improvements, increased ticket sales, the implementation of a priority points system and increases in revenues to Army Athletics. Pine also successfully negotiated and managed Army's commercial sponsorship rights for the 2007 Army / Navy Football Game in Baltimore, MD.

A 2000 graduate of Oregon State University, Pine began his career as the Assistant Director of Facilities and Event Management upon his graduation form his alma mater. He joined the Beaver's fundraising team in September of 2000 as a Development Officer for Athletics, he then went on to become the Regional Director of Development and establish regional fundraising for Oregon State University in the Southern and Central Oregon regions in support of the Beaver Athletic Scholarship Fund. Pine was instrumental in the growth in fundraising at Oregon State University where the annual support to the Beaver Athletic Student Fund grew from $3 million to more than $5 million annually during his tenure. Pine was also heavily involved in capital construction projects at Oregon State University. With his help OSU Athletics was able to complete construction on a $97 million dollar stadium renovation, construction of a $10 million dollar indoor facility and the construction of a $2 million dollar softball complex.

A native of Eagle Point, Oregon, Pine was born August 5, 1977; he resides in Oakland, California and is married to the former Stephanie Strowbridge, a 2003 graduate of Oregon State University.

TIME IN CURRENT POSITION: 2 Years

EDUCATION:
University of California, Berkeley - 2010; M.A. in Education with an emphasis in Cultural Studies of Sport in Education

Oregon State University - 2000; B.S. in Business Administration with degrees in Marketing and International Business and a minor in Pre Law