Roger Trippel
Vice President of Development
650-810-1029
Roger oversees all aspects of fundraising for the Museum. In collaboration with the Museum's trustees, the President and CEO, and the executive team, Roger is responsible for setting the long-term strategic fundraising priorities and policies for the Museum, and leads the Development team to successful achievement of annual fundraising targets.
Before joining the Computer History Museum, Roger was Director of Alumni Relations and Development for the University of Chicago's Western Regional Office, supervising a team that executed major and annual gift fundraising, alumni engagement and volunteerism, regional faculty lectures and special events with University of Chicago alumni throughout the western United States. Prior to that, Roger was Associate Director of Major and Planned Gifts at the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, raising funds in support of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the pediatric programs of the Stanford University School of Medicine. Roger has also served as Director of Foundation Giving at San Jose State University and Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Roger is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Purdue University and has completed coursework towards a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.