Fundraiser to CEO with Iain McWhirter

08/11/22 • 28 min

In this episode with Iain McWhirter of MS Revive we find out all about his journey into Fundraising and on to becoming CEO in recent months.
This offers great insights into the skills he had built to be ready to lead an organisation.
Iain also shares great stories from his career including raising half a million pounds in three weeks with a bit of a crazy concept that could just as easily have not taken off.

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