Leadership

Julie Cruit Angilly is a senior marketing and fundraising executive whose specialty is building the development and communications functions that growth-stage nonprofits need in order to scale. She founded Lotus Revenue and Brand Consultants in 2014 after more than a decade in senior nonprofit leadership, where she had been the client more often than the consultant. As Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Julie leads the firm's strategic direction, business development, and senior client engagement, partnering with Brittany Lavalleur on the operations side to ensure excellence in the work clients hire Lotus to do.

With more than two decades in the nonprofit sector, Julie brings deep expertise in fundraising strategy, marketing, and organizational growth to her clients. Before founding Lotus, she served as Vice President of Development and Communications at An Achievable Dream and as Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Education Pioneers, where she led the successful close of a three-year, $30 million contributed-revenue campaign. Across those roles and others, she has personally raised more than $60 million in philanthropic revenue and built marketing, communications, and fundraising teams that consistently exceed revenue goals. The pattern that runs through the work is consistent: take responsibility for the full revenue function, set the strategy, build the team to execute it, and stay close enough to the work to see it produce.

Brittany Lavalleur, bCRE-Pro, is a senior fundraising and development operations leader whose specialty is translating fundraising strategy into structured execution building the systems, managing the details, and coaching development staff through the major gift conversations and operational disciplines that produce results. She joined Lotus Revenue and Brand Consultants in early 2023 to partner with founder Julie Cruit Angilly in guiding the firm's expansion and client services. As Chief Development and Operations Officer, Brittany complements Julie's strategic direction by leading the operational systems and the hands-on execution that support client success.

With more than two decades in the nonprofit sector, Brittany brings expertise in fundraising and development operations, and a grounded, practitioner's perspective to Lotus's clients. Much of her career was spent inside and leading fundraising departments for symphony orchestras, before transitioning to K–12 educational equity. She has hands-on experience driving contributed revenue, soliciting major and planned gifts, leading comprehensive campaigns, and managing annual campaigns, volunteers, and teams. Prior leadership roles include Director of Development at An Achievable Dream and at the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, where she led teams to consistently exceed annual departmental revenue goals between $3 million and $6 million.