Lynda Gearheart , Senior Associate – Lynda Gearheart has built a successful career in marketing, fundraising and new business development. She is a recognized authority on the development and implementation of public/private partnerships. Lynda brings this expertise to selected projects with Schultz & Williams.

As president of Dally, Inc., an international marketing organization, Lynda oversees accounts for non-profit organizations and corporations in a wide variety of industries. At the Fort Worth Zoo, for example, she led the development, marketing and communications efforts for the creation and grand opening of the Texas Wild! exhibit of state flora and fauna; her responsibilities included supervising a $40 million capital campaign and an award-winning advertising and PR campaign.

Lynda helped to found and served as the Executive Director of the Dallas Metroplex Tourism Association, an organization of more than 160 members. In a ten-year period, she raised over $20 million to support the Association. The highly successful, award-winning and pioneering program that Lynda established has served as a model for public/private partnership efforts in the travel and tourism industry and has generated well over half a billion dollars of direct hotel and attraction revenue for the Dallas-Fort Worth area since its inception.

Lynda is currently the U.S. Executive Director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, supporting the efforts of Fund founder Dr. Laurie Marker, the world’s leading authority on cheetahs, through a comprehensive public relations campaign and organizational capacity-building efforts.

She also serves on the board of the Fundacion Avifauna Eugene Eisenmann, through which she helped develop the vision for the proposed Panama Rainforest Discovery Center, and is assisting with their fundraising efforts on a pro bono basis.