Event Sessions

Anderson Dolton, Campus Cooks

Anderson Dolton brings 25+ years of experience in the restaurant hospitality industry specializing in management, catering, and special events. As the strategic partnership manager at Campus Cooks, she develops relationships at the national level driving retention. Anderson discovered a love for camp life as a child, which led to employment as a head counselor for four years. It’s multi-generational, as her son is now an active camper.

Don Plumlee, Campus Cooks

Don is a human resources professional who honed his skills for 15 years working across the country in the food and beverage industry. As the Manager of Learning and Development, Don develops and implements diverse training systems for all levels of operational staff at Campus Cooks, ensuring the staff is trained and ready to go from day one. The son of ranchers, Don grew up in rural Kansas where his family processed their own meat, cooked from scratch giant meals prepared for visiting family.

Chip Becker, Campus Cooks

Chip Becker spent eight years as a professional actor before embarking upon a 35+ year career in the restaurant hospitality industry. As an account manager for Campus Cooks, Chip manages district managers and aids in client and employee retention ensuring a seamless operation. Passionate about the outdoors, Chip enjoys spending time with his family while hiking, skiing, and cooking family dinners on the grill.  

Sponsored by Campus Cooks

Stefan Pollack, The Pollack Group

Stefan Pollack is president of The Pollack Group, an integrated public relations and marketing firm with offices in Los Angeles and New York. For 30+ years, he has managed clients in many sectors ranging from consumer products and professional services to technology and nonprofit. He has served as president of the Public Relations Society of America, Los Angeles Chapter and as chair of the Americas Region Board for The Worldcom Public Relations Group (Worldcom), a global partnership of independent public relations firms. He is currently the global marketing chair and vice chair of the global board for Worldcom. Since 2001, he has taught as an adjunct professor at USC Annenberg. He is the author of Disrupted, From GenY to iGen: Communicating with the Next Generation and is a member of the Forbes Agency Council where he is often quoted and writes on the topics of social media, PR, marketing, and communications. In 2019, Pollack and his agency established the Noemi Pollack Scholarship at USC’s Center for Public Relations which annually awards a partial tuition scholarship to an undergraduate student pursuing a major or minor in public relations.

Sponsored by StickersandMore

Casey Fuerst, Tic Tac Toe Marketing

Casey has worked with camps and retreat centers to give them messaging, strategic marketing plans and collateral materials to support their work for 20+ years. She has helped camps get initiatives and campaigns off the ground, supported leadership through rebranding efforts, managed complex crisis communication, and executed countless print and online campaigns. She is a StoryBrand Certified Guide and use this framework to create powerful marketing messages that make a real impact!

David Phillips, Immersive1st

David Phillips is Principal of Immersive1st, a firm specializing in fundraising, strategic planning and visioning, governance, program creation & implementation and acute organizational analysis. A life-long communal professional with a trademark British sense of humor, his passion is doing important things with good people that make a difference (and have fun while doing it!). He holds a MSW in Social Work with a focus on community organizing and development from the University of Pittsburgh.