Kevin Almond, RPh, is the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy's associate dean for advancement, the president of the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina, and executive director of the Pharmacy Alumni Association.

He graduated from the School in 1983 and spent the rest of the decade in community pharmacy both as an independent store owner and as a relief pharmacist. While in practice, Almond served on the Lee County board of health and the Hospice board in his native Sanford, North Carolina, and is a past president of both the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association and the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. He served on the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association Endowment Fund board for four years and was recognized as the Marion Merrell Dow Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year for North Carolina in 1992.

Almond began his career at the School in 1991 as the assistant dean of development, a position that was still in its infancy. It has been his mission to strengthen the connection between the School, its alumni, and the profession. He rapidly evolved the publication outreach to supporters and alumni with three issues of the Carolina Pharmacy magazine and the Pharmacy Foundation's annual report. He inaugurated the PAA Golf Tournament raising more than $1 million in support and the annual Foundation Dinner as ways of connecting corporations and alumni who support the School with the programs and people who benefit from that support.

Almond’s advocacy on the School's behalf has improved the financial health of the institution. During his tenure, more than $100 million has been raised in private support, enabling the School to endow fifteen distinguished professorships, increase scholarships for professional students from from twenty to more than 120, and provide $450,000 annually in graduate fellowship support. Facility space has tripled during that same time with more than $14 million dollars contributed by alumni and friends, the most tangible evidence of which is Banks D. Kerr Hall. Total endowed assets increased 400 percent. Sixty percent of alumni have made a gift to support the school since 1991.