College of Business

Eric Halonen

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Contact

  • Assistant Vice President for Principal Giving

Biography

Eric Halonen serves as the Assistant Vice President for Principal Giving and is responsible for advancing the mission, vision and short and long-term goals of Michigan Tech through private philanthropic support in the form of principal ($1 million+) outright and estate gifts.

Eric joined the Michigan Tech Fund and the Office of Advancement in 1997 as the Director of Planned Giving during the Leaders for Innovation Campaign. During his 20+ year career with Michigan Tech, he also served as the Assistant Vice President of Advancement and the Director of Major Gifts and Gift Planning. Prior to coming to Michigan Tech, Eric was a Commercial Loan officer for Michigan Financial Corporation (now Flagstar Bank) and a CPA and Audit senior for the accounting firm of Ernst & Young in their Milwaukee, WI office.

A native of Hancock, Eric attended Michigan Tech and graduated from Albion College in 1991 with a degree in Economics and Management with a concentration in accounting. He is a member of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) and the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners (CGP).

Specialties

  • Provides overall strategy, direction and support to increase the number of transformational principal gifts
  • Oversees, and participates as appropriate, in the process of identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of the principal giving prospects
  • Networks across the University to generate and ensure global awareness of “big ideas”
  • Updates the Michigan Tech Fund Board of Directors on principal giving activities and recommends potential new members to this board
  • Provides direct and indirect management of prospects and donors with the capacity to make principal gifts
  • Supports the Dean of the College of Business with direct support of a portfolio of the College’s major and principal donors and prospects