Our Experienced Recruiting Team

DRG Consultants

The DRG team of skilled and active professionals represents decades of search and consultative experience serving a wide range of nonprofit clients. All come from successful careers in nonprofit organizations. And all continue to have active involvement in a variety of nonprofit boards and professional associations - extending their reach into the nonprofit world many times over.

At DRG, each consultant brings valuable experience, perspective, and performance to every search. They interface with clients and candidates, conveying a strong sense of commitment and passion. In fact, DRG consultants are recognized and valued for their insight, knowledge, and understanding of the nonprofit sector. They look beyond their roles as recruiters. They seek to help clients shape their total nonprofit landscape so that the successful search will help them move forward in meeting goals.

Mary T. Wheeler, Senior Vice-President, started her career as a development executive with two nonprofit organizations, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Phoenix House. Her exemplary 23 years in executive search have included her role as a partner and nonprofit specialist at two major generalist executive search firms, Lamalie Amrop International and Boyden International. She joined DRG in 1996. Throughout her dynamic career, Mary has specialized in conducting senior level assignments for social service agencies, foundations, educational, environmental and cultural institutions, and international non-governmental organizations.

Mary has a BA from Smith College. She has been active as a volunteer and Board member of the YWCA of New York City and currently serves on the Boards of the Frost Valley YMCA and the Hudson Guild, a settlement house in Manhattan. She sings with the Canterbury Choral Society and is a past president of that organization. Mary is a member of the Academy of Women Achievers and was honored in the 1995 edition of The New Career Makers as one of the top 250 recruiters in the United States.

Since joining DRG, Mary has broadened the firm's client base to include such organizations as American Psychological Association, Environmental Defense, Thirteen-WNET, The Population Council, United Way of New York City, Childreach, Big Brothers-Big Sisters, The Nature Conservancy, the YMCA of New York City and Good Shepherd Services. Her searches focus on recruiting CEOs and senior development executives.

Daniel B. Ripps,DRG Vice President, brings 14 years of senior management and leadership experience in nonprofit organizations to DRG. His diverse background spans from education and youth work to domestic hunger relief, advocacy and lobbying, and international development. Daniel has served as the international director of the KADIMA Youth Organization, Director of Field Operations for the Hadassah International Medical Relief Association, and Director of Agency Services and Community Relations with the Food for Survival Food Bank. In 1995, Daniel was awarded the Ralph I. Goldman Fellowship in International Communal Affairs by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which included resident field assignments working in the Former Soviet Union, Israel, and Latin America.

As an active lecturer and educator, Daniel speaks nationally on topics including management, innovation and programming, leadership development, social policy and action, hunger, international development, and Jewish traditions and Jewish community. Since 1995, he has been an adjunct faculty member at the New York University Graduate School of Education where he teaches a course on public policy and public health.

Daniel is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. He has a BA in History and Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.P.A. from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Lucretia A. Cavan, comes to DRG with fifteen years of management and fundraising experience in major universities and healthcare organizations.

Her prior experience includes leadership positions at Brown University, Columbia University and The New School where she worked closely with the respective presidents and trustees on high level fundraising and strategic planning for billion dollar campaigns. In addition, Lucretia served as Vice President for Development at Continuum Health Partners, a consortium of distinguished hospitals in New York City, working with the CEOs of St. Luke's Hospital, Roosevelt Hospital, Beth Israel Medical Center and Long Island College Hospital on strategic planning. The hospital system provides 3,100 beds and has an operating budget of $2 billion.

Lucretia has extensive experience in major gift fundraising and board management and is an invited guest lecturer in the Master's Program for Non-Profit Management at The New School. She received her B.A. from The University of the Ozarks and M.A. from Virginia Tech University.

Jodi received her B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and an M.A. in Modern Jewish History concentrating in Eastern European Jewish History from Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School.

She is an active member of the Brandeis University Alumni Admissions Council and a board member of Advancing Jewish Professionals.

Jennifer Marie Jones has been with DRG since 2001. In addition to her work as an Associate on primarily fundraising searches, Jenn provides research for most of DRG's searches. Jennifer is also responsible for the administration of data within DRG's proprietary database of 35,000 nonprofit executives. Jennifer is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where she holds a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts.

Jill Sarah Moscowitz, comes to DRG with over fifteen years of experience in healthcare and labor, and over 20 years experience with non-profits such as the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Health Professionals and Allied Employees. Jill is a professional mediator and has developed skills in organizational development, negotiating, and conflict resolution.

Jill received her BA in Nutrition from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and her Master Degree in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) and serves on the Leadership Council of the Workplace Section of ACR.