David Lamb is a Senior Consultant with Target Analytics: A Blackbaud Company (www.blackbaud.com/targetanalytics), a provider of custom data modeling and prospect research services. He has been a prospect researcher since 1989, starting at Santa Clara University where he was promoted to Director of Development Research in his second year on the job. After taking the Director of Prospect Research position at the University of Washington, he led a team that developed their first prospect management system. Under his leadership, the prospect research and management staff size there rose from four people to thirteen. After leaving the University of Washington, he served clients from coast to coast as a freelance prospect research consultant. David Lamb’s Prospect Research Page (www.lambresearch.com), a trusted and popular resource among prospect researchers.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Sterling College (Sterling, Kansas), a master's in Sociology from Wichita State University, and a master's in Divinity from San Francisco Theological Seminary.

He is a frequent speaker at professional conferences, including those sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), and The Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (APRA). His areas of expertise include prospect research, prospect management, fundraising, and database systems. In 1997 he received APRA's Service Award for outstanding service to the profession and in 2001 he was awarded the CASE's Steuben Apple award for excellence in teaching.