Non-Profit Tech Blog

Boy, I’m real curious about this debate but here’s some information about who the participants really are.

Mark Bolgiano, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Council on Foundations
Mark Bolgiano is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the Council on Foundations in Washington DC. In that capacity he supports the Council’s mission as the executive responsible for IT infrastructure, online services, digital media, and knowledge management. He has twenty years of experience in non-profit information technology and operations management. As president and founding partner of Radicle LLC, he provided consulting and applications development services to non-profit institutions with a focus on data-driven web applications and knowledge management systems. A winner of the annual American Society of Association Executives Award of Excellence in Information Systems, Mark founded, and for 17 years has moderated, the Non-Profit Technology Best Practices Study Group, a colloquium of chief technologists at non-profit institutions dedicated to the improvement of the discipline through the sharing of knowledge and experiences.
Source: http://www.tagtech.org/default.asp?id=106

Tom Krackeler, Senior Vice President, Products and Marketing,GetActive
As a co-founder and Senior Vice President of Products and Marketing, Tom has led GetActive’s effort to build the leading relationship management software for membership organizations. Tom is responsible for developing GetActive’s product strategy, and he oversees the company’s product management, marketing, and user experience teams. Prior to helping start GetActive, Tom worked in the nonprofit sector at Environmental Defense as product manager for the Action Network and Scorecard web applications. Before that he was a consultant at Accenture, specializing in large-scale system integrations for financial institutions. Tom has a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Duke University and an MPP in Public Policy from UC Berkeley.
Source: http://www.getactive.com/about_us/team.html

Steve Wright, Director of Innovation, Salesforce
Steve joined Salesforce Foundation in September 2000. In his role as Program Director, he works directly with youth, technology coordinators and community organizations to ensure a productive experience. Steve and the Foundation believe that the most effective use of technology in this setting is as a creative tool to publish unheard voices. Steve also provides technical support by helping to network the computers, troubleshoot hardware and software issues, provide onsite training, install software, and configure servers

Prior to joining the Foundation, Steve worked for thirteen years in technology and education. He was a high school administrator for two years and a classroom teacher for seven years, beginning in the Peace Corps.

While teaching in Pasadena, he became interested in the confluence of education and technology; specifically, in the role that electronic communication could play to encourage conversation between students in underserved communities and the rest of the world. Steve has a Masters degree in Education..
Source: http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/aboutus/staff.html

Dennis Chyba, Kintera
Dennis Chyba serves as Kintera’s senior vice president of Knowledge Products and leads the knowledge product group consisting of customer relationship management (CRM) FundWare, and Prospect Relationship Management.
Source: http://www.kinterainc.com/site/c.owL8JoO7KzE/b.1707375/k.FEB4/Social_CRM_Roadshow.htm

Peter Campbell, Goodwill
Peter Campbell is the Director of Information Technology at Goodwill Industries of San Francisco.
Source: http://nten.typepad.com/newsletter/2006/07/seven_questions.html
He also has a blog at http://blog.krazy.com/

Dr. David Crooke, Founder and CTO, Convio
Before co-founding Convio, David was a senior consultant at Trilogy Software. At Trilogy, David was responsible for designing, building and deploying large-scale e-commerce systems for Fortune 500 technology companies. Before Trilogy, David ran a data center for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence, where he provided an integrated computing environment ranging from desktops to supercomputers.

David holds a Ph.D in parallel software engineering from the University of Edinburgh, Europe’s leading institution for parallel computing. He also holds an MA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

Growing up, David participated in blood drives for the Bermuda Red Cross. He also has helped run motorsport events benefiting the BBC’s “Children in Need” campaign. David supports NPR, as well as environmental groups and international relief agencies.
Source: http://www.convio.com/site/PageServer?pagename=com_management

Nick Ballenger, Democracy in Action
As Support Engineer, Nick is one of DiA’s main points of contact for clients. In addition to troubleshooting technical fixes and helping users interact with the DiA platform, Nick is responsible for writing documentation, creating usability improvements, and communicating between the technical and administrative staff. Nick comes to DIA after spending the last year teaching web programming in a charter school in Eugene, Oregon. After starting and launching a successful political documentary project in the fall of 2000, Nick returned to school for further coursework in political theory and computer science. He then went on to do freelance Geographic Information Systems and GPS work, as well as grant-funded geographic research on Tibetan and Feng Shui sacred forests in Hong Kong and mainland China. Nick brings his experience in geographic analysis to his work at DIA, and hopes to eventually integrate tools for spatial analysis and visualization into DIA’s online services.
Source: http://www.democracyinaction.org/www/bios.jsp