CHERI DAILY
Salt Lake City,Utah
Summary
Results-oriented executive professional with history of delivering impactful organizational changes and strategic initiatives. Proven ability to lead and inspire teams, ensuring alignment with company goals and fostering a culture of excellence. Renowned for adaptability and strong focus on achieving measurable results through effective collaboration and leadership.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive Director, Office for Global Engagement (OGE)
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
01.2008 - Current
- Direct strategic international partnership development, global program development, marketing, and outreach supporting international initiatives at the University of Utah.
- Drive international partnership strategy and development with higher education institutions and government entities across the globe.
- Drove OGE strategy development for OGE in coordination with a cross-campus team.
- Develop, plan, and manage the delivery of university-based custom programs for international clients, including the Chinese Ministry of Education and provincial governments. Entails all program design, curriculum, P&L responsibility, contract negotiation, staffing, and oversight of program delivery. Programs included the Pac-12 China Coaches Training program, one of the largest U.S.-China people-to-people exchanges. The four-year program generated $6.7M in revenue for the University and educated over 400 university coaching faculty.
- Created the Global U Inventory, a real-time searchable database of University of Utah international activities.
- Develop branding and marketing campaigns for the department and affiliated programs; drove the successful rebrand of the U Asia Campus (South Korea). Rebrand campaign instrumental in over 2000% increase in student learning abroad participation.
- Plan, market, and execute visits and events for international dignitaries, including the visit of the Dalai Lama to the University of Utah (2016).
- Co-PI and Project Manager on a $19M USAID grant working with universities in Pakistan to improve educational capacity and alignment with workforce development goals. Work included developing a highly regarded training program for creating professional online education.
- Developed and co-manage the Winter Olympic Sustainability Research Alliance (WOSRA), a consortium of ~ 100 research faculty from the University of Utah and Université Côte d’Azur working on sustainability issues related to the Winter Olympic Games.
- Work with state and community leaders and organizations to align international goals and programs.
Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
01.2008 - 01.2013
- As the liaison for University of Utah’s key corporations and foundations, responsible for the strategic cultivation and stewardship of most of the University’s largest donors.
- Teamed with academic departments to extend corporate relationships, define partnership opportunities, and create funding proposals.
- Worked with faculty on two successful Keck Awards for a total of $1.2M, drove process and details regarding submissions, presentation and foundation site visit.
- Coordinated university-side proposal process for Utah corporations and foundations.
- Advised area development officers on best approach for specific entities.
- Successful major gift solicitation for the Chemistry department including a $2M endowed chair and $500K in equipment donations.
- Created industry-specific strategies for corporate partnerships.
- Created planned, marketed, and executed successful donor cultivation events including faculty lectures and VIP receptions.
Director, Alumni and Corporate Relations
OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
01.2004 - 01.2007
- Company Overview: Public university and part of Oregon University System, with approximately 3,000 students and 20,000 alumni.
- Drove alumni and corporate relations programs and made all program decisions. Worked closely with university president and executive staff on key strategies to market the university.
- Reshaped alumni advisory board: added new members and engaged board in more university events.
- Grew membership in website to almost 10% of alumni population by initiating, designing, and creating all content for new website for alumni and friends.
- Attracted 33% of senior class to events and engaged alumni in working with students by refocusing program on career connections for both alumni and students.
- Editor of Alumni magazine.
- Developed 10-year plan for engaging alumni as member of President’s Strategic Planning team.
- Spearheaded new funding and partnership opportunities, including student internships and professional education with national corporations.
- Created, planned, marketed, and executed successful Renewable Energy Conference series, with nationally recognized speakers, drew attendees from across the state.
- Public university and part of Oregon University System, with approximately 3,000 students and 20,000 alumni.
Investor/Marketing
PEBBLECREEK MORTGAGE
01.2003 - 01.2004
- Company Overview: Mortgage business.
- Assisted in successful launch of new business.
- Mortgage business.
Vice President, Time Warner Digital Properties
AOL Time Warner
01.1999 - 01.2002
- Managed and executed overall strategy to integrate Time Warner websites with AOL. Met regularly with Time Warner executives at Time, Inc. and CNN, to evaluate business needs and present strategy and execution tactics.
- Negotiated traffic deals between Time Warner brands and AOL programming heads.
- Created promotional vehicles for Time Warner brands to drive more traffic to sites.
- Collaborated with department heads to coordinate resolution of needs and issues from Time Warner brands, including promotions to drive traffic to websites, ad sales across brands, and rollout of online tools.
- Selected as one of two-person team to manage integration of Time Warner websites with AOL pre- and post- merger; developed key strategy for integration.
- Saved combined companies over $500 million by bringing formerly isolated website teams into collaborative working group; worked across brands to improve efficiencies and costs.
- Created premium content campaigns to successfully drive traffic to various brands, including Warner Brothers, New Line Cinema, People, CNN, InStyle, Cartoon Network, and TNT.
- Drove increased traffic between content websites and improved brand metrics by designing and implementing editorial cross-promotion database.
- Initiated and led design of website templates that standardized ad positions and sizes: increased efficiency and sales of online ads.
- Revitalized the Netscape branding and identity, improving audience retention and capturing market data for targeted marketing opportunities.
Director Studio Productions
AOL Time Warner
01.1996 - 01.1999
- Managed a 20-person, multi-site team in the creative development of AOL service. Hired, fired, developed, and scheduled team.
- Oversaw the development and delivery of key customer acquisition and retention features, including AOL content areas, AOL Wallet, AOL Search, and Netscape Search.
- Reported to senior management weekly on status, issues, and resolutions.
- Developed and managed projects with multi-million-dollar budgets from concept to delivery and launch.
- Successfully managed team’s creation of hundreds of products in extremely fast-paced, complex environment where project priorities changed on daily basis.
- Increased customer traffic and company revenue by personally creating several of most popular sites on AOL, including The Late Show with David Letterman and Sporting News, the first sporting magazine on AOL; developed creative solutions to translate non-Web media into interactive and compelling sites.
- Drove the design of well-reviewed Netscape Search product, the first search product to use Google as a search engine; assisted in negotiations for a new search engine (Google); oversaw product launch and subsequent revisions and improvements to the product.
- Created the first Late Show with David Letterman internet presence on AOL; site was one of the top page-view sites on AOL. Designed lead-up campaign for launch of The Late Show site; created buzz about site for the month prior to launch.
Education
PhD - Educational Leadership & Policy
University of Utah
12-2025
Master of Science - International Affairs and Global Enterprise
University of Utah
Bachelor of Arts - Medical Illustration (Special Project Major)
University of California, San Diego
Skills
- International partnership developmment
- Community engagement
- Program management
- Strategic planning
- Project management
- Partnership development
- Public speaking
- Relationship building
- Innovation and creativity
- Leadership development
- Marketing
- Business development
- Fundraising expertise
- Education
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
- Rubin, P. G., Daily, C. A., Coon, S. R., State goals, institutional social constructions, and Utah’s postsecondary education governance reform efforts., Educational Policy, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1177/08959048241243082
- Rubin, P. G., Coon, S. R., Daily, C. A., Moving Beyond the Observable: What Distinct Values Contributed to Utah's Postsecondary Sector Changes in the United States?, Higher Education Quarterly, 79, 1, e12582, 2025
Awards
Fulbright Award, U.S. Department of State, 2023, Taiwan
Patents
#5,619,636, Multimedia Publishing System – designed interface for product that was licensed to Apple and IBM JV and sold to Autodesk, where it was released as Hyperwire.
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Timeline
Executive Director, Office for Global Engagement (OGE)
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
01.2008 - Current
Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
01.2008 - 01.2013
Director, Alumni and Corporate Relations
OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
01.2004 - 01.2007
Investor/Marketing
PEBBLECREEK MORTGAGE
01.2003 - 01.2004
Vice President, Time Warner Digital Properties
AOL Time Warner
01.1999 - 01.2002
Director Studio Productions
AOL Time Warner
01.1996 - 01.1999
Bachelor of Arts - Medical Illustration (Special Project Major)
University of California, San Diego
PhD - Educational Leadership & Policy
University of Utah
Master of Science - International Affairs and Global Enterprise
University of Utah
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