TEAM
FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
LOU COVE brings 30 years of business-development skills to his work as the NETWORK's founder and principal. He has helped clients raise tens of millions of dollars and has personally raised more than $70 million.
Lou has served as advisor to CEOs and Boards of Trustees at numerous national non-profits, including the American Institute for Architects, Represent.Us, Double Edge Theatre, The DiaTribe Foundation, Girls Leadership Institute, The Harold Grinspoon Foundation and PJ Library.
Lou is also the author of MAN OF THE YEAR, a memoir about his first, very unusual campaign. PEOPLE magazine called it "Hilarious and poignant" and Booklist raved "It's the kind of book readers fall in love with.”
PRINCIPAL
DANA KADISH is a senior educational leader with over 25 years of experience in early childhood education, admissions, teaching, staff management, and organizational capacity-building.
Dana has held key leadership roles, including Co-Head of School at The Common School, where she oversaw operations, faculty management, fundraising, and community engagement. She has expertise in independent school leadership, and fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging (DEIJB) initiatives.
With a strong background in educational leadership and strategic growth, she is a natural mentor for leaders of small private schools and small businesses, helping them navigate the challenges of managing staff, complex interpersonal issues, engaging communities, and driving sustainable growth.
NETWORK PARTNER
REGAN SOLMO is a high functioning, passionate, and accomplished editorial advisor and philanthropic strategist. Regan has 25 years of experience in the corporate magazine publishing sector, with 15 years at Conde Nast (Executive Managing Editor of W Magazine for 10), specializing in organizational and operational efficiencies to further the organization's mission and vision.
She is a committed ally, keenly focused on eradicating inequity (gender, racial, income) with more than 10 years' experience serving on and leading boards of gender-facing nonprofits (most recently as the first-ever New York Board Chair of Girls Leadership). As a two-term board member of The New York Women's Foundation, Regan sat on the grants allocation committee for 4 years, helping the foundation rigorously determine which organizations would collectively receive more than $8 million annually in grants.
As Director of Individual Giving for Student Leadership Network, Regan was a strong, clear communicator and strategic builder of major donor relationships, and secured six-figure, multi-year gifts during her time at SL Network. She worked closely with board members to energize their engagement through events and campaigns, and ideated, created, and executed successful Giving Tuesday and Year-End campaigns, as well as 2020's innovative rapid response Crossing the Finish Line: Student Success in the Face of COVID-19.
Her development expertise includes major donor cultivation and stewardship, campaign ideation, effective outreach and communications, staff organization and management, media and PR outreach, board management and motivation, and budget oversight.
Regan lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.