Submitted by Ellen Fiss, Public Relations Manager at Tampa General Hospital: 

Christopher Bray has joined Tampa General as the director of Development and Major Gifts for the hospital’s Foundation.

He formerly served as director of Major Gifts at The University of Tennessee Medical Center and the university’s Graduate School of Medicine in Knoxville, Tenn.

While there, Christopher solicited a donation of $2.7 million, the largest individual gift ever made to the medical center.

He also initiated a capital campaign to raise $4.8 million for the renovation of the medical center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Prior to joining the University of Tennessee, Christopher was the vice president of Development for the Helen Ross McNabb Center in Knoxville.

He is a graduate of the University of South Florida.