Patricia Caesar
PRESIDENT
Caesar Consulting Group

Patricia Caesar is President of the Caesar Consulting Group, a company that provides strategic consulting services to nonprofit organizations and philanthropic institutions and individuals. CCG focuses on three essential core capabilities that nonprofit organizations need to achieve success: Leadership Development, Strategic Planning and Revenue Development. Its services include: board assessment and development, board governance and policy development, business planning, social enterprise, organizational development, executive search, and raised and earned revenue development. CCG is a leader in the field of bringing effective business principles and practices to the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors.

Ms. Caesar’s consulting career spans over twenty-five years. Prior to establishing the Caesar Consulting Group, she was President & CEO of the Marks Paneth Strategy Group, and Chairman of Caesar & Washburn, Inc. Her clients reflect a broad range of social and philanthropic issues. Nonprofit clients include the National Center for Children in Poverty, Network for Good, National Council on Economic Education, Public Radio Capital, American Lung Association, Entertainment Industry Foundation, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Global Nomads Group, Invisible Children, Nyumbani, New York Association for New Americans, and Food Bank for New York City.

Foundation and corporate clients include The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, Bezos Family Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Paul & Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, JM Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, New York Community Trust, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Wallace Foundation. Government agency clients include U.S. Departments of Education, Labor, and Justice.
Highly regarded for her knowledge in the field, Ms. Caesar is often engaged to speak or write on a variety of topics concerning philanthropy. She has published many articles in professional journals and contributed a chapter on “The Business Plan in Action: Fundamentals of Implementation” in Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful Enterprise Strategies, Yale School of Management-The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures. She has also conducted training in business plan development, strategic planning, social enterprise, marketing, resource development, and performance assessment for organizations such as The Conference Board, Social Enterprise Alliance, New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, New York State Society of Association Executives, Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, and Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Ms. Caesar serves on the board of directors of WITNESS, Facing History and Ourselves, and the Cue Art Foundation. She was a founding board member of God’s Love We Deliver and The Faith Center for Community Development, and a board member of the Greyston Foundation.

Ms. Caesar received a B.A. from Brandeis University and a Masters in Administration from Columbia University. At Columbia, she was a Ford Foundation Fellow in the Program for Educational Leadership.

Thomas Baker
SENIOR CONSULTANT
Caesar Consulting Group

Tom Baker has more than twenty years of experience managing successful businesses in print and online publishing, entertainment, and education. Recognized as a pioneer in establishing profitable subscription models in internet publishing through his work as founder and long-time general manager of The Wall Street Journal Online, he helped grow the Online Journal into a $60 million business unit and the largest paid news and information site on the Web, with more than 500,000 subscribers.

He launched more than a dozen other new products and brand extensions for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, including The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition, CareerJournal, and products delivered via fax and CD-ROM. He also oversaw the Journal´s national radio news network and Dow Jones´ news syndication and licensing business, and led the effort to create the first company-wide customer database.

More recently, Mr. Baker was Senior Vice President/Marketing for work.com, the joint venture between Dow Jones and Excite@Home. Since then he has completed consulting assignments and product plans for companies in the music, financial-services, magazine, and education industries, among others.
Before his years at Dow Jones, Mr. Baker was marketing manager for Carnegie Hall in New York, overseeing all the institution's advertising, communications and subscriber programs. His background also includes creating and managing direct marketing programs in every medium, and business journalism at major publications. He was named a Digital Media Master by Advertising Age in 1997, and one of the "25 Unsung Heroes of the Internet" by Interactive Age in 1998.

Mr. Baker has degrees from Princeton University and Columbia Business School, and publishes widely in several areas of interest.