NTEN Board of Directors

Lynn Labieniec (Board Chair)

Second term runs through 2011

Lynn Labieniec has been helping the nonprofit sector apply technology to their business operations since 1980 and is currently the CEO of and a strategy consultant for Beaconfire Consulting. She has developed technology strategies for clients such as the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research Foundation, United Way of America, Planned Parenthood, and others.

Before co-founding Beaconfire, Lynn served on Commerce One's Nonprofit Leadership Team, as well as a leader within Commerce One's project management skill track. Previously, Lynn was a founding partner of RivCom Limited, in the United Kingdom, a consultancy firm specializing in applying XML technologies to knowledge and information management problems. She has also held various management positions at Blackbaud Inc. and Riverside Software Inc., with a particular focus on helping corporate and private foundations effectively implement and integrate grants management and employee gift matching software. She started her career at IBM's Corporate Headquarters in Armonk, NY. During her tenure of nearly seven years, she worked on many projects with the corporate philanthropy department, including leading the technology development of IBM's employee matching gift program.

Michael Schreiber (Board Vice-Chair)

Second term runs through 2011

Mr. Schreiber is the President of TRUiST, the world’s largest Philanthropic Logistics Company. TRUiST provides outsourced support for organizational giving, volunteering, disaster response, and PAC matching programs. The company moves over $600 million in charitable contributions each year on behalf of 2,000 organizations. Prior to the creation of TRUiST, Michael served as the Executive Vice President for Enterprise Services at United Way of America, which housed United Way's P&L based subsidiaries as well as the organization’s technology infrastructure and initiatives.

Prior to joining United Way of America in 2001, Michael worked for Deloitte Consulting. During his 6 years at Deloitte, Michael worked with a wide range of commercial and governmental clients. These clients included: The National Government of Namibia, The Commonwealth of Kentucky, and The Philadelphia Eagles. In addition, Michael created and ran Deloitte Consulting’s National Non Profit Organization Practice.

Most of Michael’s career prior to Deloitte was spent in Africa, where he worked for the US Embassy in The Gambia and a Swiss NGO providing privatization assistance in Zimbabwe.

Michael has a BA in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Duke University.

Lauren-Glenn Davitian (Board Treasurer)

Second term runs through 2011

Lauren-Glenn Davitian is widely credited with establishing strong community access to cable television throughout Vermont. She is a well-known spokeswoman on behalf of free speech and open networks locally and in the state capital. She is founder and executive director of _CCTV_ <http://www.cctv.org/>'s Center for Media and Democracy and oversees Channel 17/Town Meeting Television (a regional government access TV channel), Common Good Vermont (a Vermont nonprofit capacity building project) and CCTV Productions & Technical Services. She is a founding member of Vermont Access Network (a trade group of 27 public access tv centers in Vermont) and currently serves on the editorial board of the _Alliance for Community Media_ <http://www.alliancecm.org/>'s Community Media Review and NTEN (www.nten.org). Lauren-Glenn is a graduate of the University of Vermont (B.A. in Anthropology, Phi Beta Kappa, 1982).

Phil Ferrante-Roseberry (Board Secretary)

Second term runs through 2011

Phil Ferrante-Roseberry is Executive Vice President of TechSoup Global(formerly CompuMentor), a recognized international leader in bringing technological empowerment and philanthropy to social benefit organizations around the world. Its flagship website, TechSoup.org,serves over 400,000 nonprofit users monthly.

Phil's "first career" was that of a software engineer with numerous companies in Silicon Valley and Massachusetts. During that period he worked on a wide range of projects, including design efforts for weather radar systems, mainframe computers, and enterprise-level CRM systems.

In 1995, Phil entered the nonprofit technology world and hasn't looked back. In his years with TechSoup, he has developed extensive experience in the areas of social enterprise and nonprofit/corporate collaborations. Phil strives to develop programs which fit an organization's culture, stay true to its mission, and provide much needed sources of unrestricted capital.

Phil holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. A news-junkie and strong advocate of the Commons, Phil lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and 2 children.

Amy Borgstrom

First term runs through 2013

Amy Borgstrom has been Associate Director of Policy at the Corporation for National and Community Service since 2005. Prior to that she worked at the U.S. Department of Commerce Technology Opportunities Program. For almost twenty years before that, she worked to revitalize the economy of rural Appalachian Ohio through a market-based strategy and use of the Internet with the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks. She also consulted on the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Managing Information with Rural America program, served on the Board of CTCnet, and helped found the Association for Community Networks in the last millennium. A librarian who has yet to work in a library, she has an MLS degree from Kent State University, and MA in English from Ohio University, and attended undergraduate school at Colorado College.

Rusty Burwell

First term runs through 2011

Rusty currently serves as Vice President, Data and Technology at the national headquarters of the American Lung Association in New York. His ALA career started with the Mississippi Lung Association as a Field Representative in 1983. He worked in a number of fundraising capacities at the national level starting in 1987 and moved to New York in 1992. In September 2006, he took his current position responsible for internal IT and phone operations at the ALA headquarters, the nationwide database operations center in Henderson, NV, online/web operations and other nationwide technology projects such as the centralized Sage MIP accounting system, and the Convio online platform.

Patrick Collins

First term runs through 2010

Patrick Collins is the chief information officer and director of grants administration at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. In these capacities, he is responsible for all aspects of the Foundation's information technology and for the efficient flow of its grantmaking processes. He also manages the Foundation's videoconferencing grants program, which reduces travel for Hewlett employees and grantees, and a small portfolio of other grants pertaining to information technology.

Before joining the Foundation in 2005, Patrick was director of information and communication services at the University of California Office of the President. There he directed the delivery of information technology services to 2,200 employees at UC headquarters and the negotiation and management of $200 million in annual information technology purchases for the UC system. Earlier in his career, Patrick directed two academic data centers: the California Census Research Data Center at UCLA and UC Berkeley, and the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at Cornell University. He also has contributed to scholarly publications as a data analyst, statistician, and author.

Patrick serves the Foundation Center's board of trustees and advisory committees for TechSoup, GuideStar, and the Council on Foundations. He received a bachelor of science degree from Cornell University and a master of business administration degree from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley-both with honors.

Tom Krackeler

First term runs through 2011

Tom Krackeler has spent over a decade developing web technology that enables nonprofits to acquire, engage, and retain supporters online. Tom is currently at Convio as Vice President of the Common Ground product line, a nonprofit constituent relationship management solution that Convio built on the Force.com platform from Salesforce.com. Tom joined Convio in 2007 and has also served as Vice President of Product Management where he was responsible for product strategy and planning. Prior to joining Convio, Tom was Senior Vice President of Products at GetActive Software, where he oversaw the company's engineering, product management, and user experience teams. Before GetActive, Tom worked in the nonprofit sector at the Environmental Defense Fund and as a consultant with Accenture. Tom has a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Duke University and an MPP in Public Policy from UC Berkeley.

Steve MacLaughlin

First term runs through 2011

Steve MacLaughlin is the Director of Internet Solutions at Blackbaud and is responsible for leading how the company provides online solutions for its clients. Steve has spent more than 12 years building successful online initiatives with a broad range of Fortune 500 firms, government and educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations across the world. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and events including the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Direct Marketing Fundraisers Association (DMFA), National Association of Independent School (NAIS), Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), and many other nonprofit industry organizations. Steve was been recognized by the ePhilanthropy Foundation as an ePhilanthropy Master Trainer. Steve’s thoughts on leveraging the Internet were featured in the book People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities and he is currently working on a new book about nonprofit management strategies that will be published in 2010. You can find his blog at: www.blackbauds.com/connections Steve earned both his undergraduate degree and a Master of Science degree in Interactive Media from Indiana University.

Jorge Martinez

Second term runs through 2009

Jorge Joined the Knight Foundation in June 1996 as Manager of Information Technology. In March 2003, he was promoted to Director of Information Systems. Jorge leads the foundation’s information systems department and its initiative to achieve Universal Wireless Access in its 26 communities.

He has 25 years of experience in the IT field. Before joining the foundation, he worked in the advanced systems department of the Miami Herald Publishing Company. Prior to that, Jorge was a Systems Engineer for MicroAge, whose clients included Dade-Baxter, Baptist Health Systems, Knight-Ridder and Ryder Systems.
Jorge is an alumnus of Leadership Miami. He is a board member and former Chairman of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) of the Council of Foundations. He is a board member of the Nonprofit Technology Network (N-TEN) and a member of the Foundation Information Systems Managers group.

He earned his Bachelor’s of Science degree in Information Technology from Barry University and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Michelle Murrain

First term runs through 2010

Michelle Murrain received her B.A. in Natural Science and Mathematics from Bennington College, and her Ph.D. in Biology from Case Western Reserve University.

She was an HIV/AIDS educator and advocate in the early part of the HIV epidemic in Cleveland, OH, and was part of training hotline workers that staffed the first statewide HIV/AIDS Information hotline. Michelle taught at Hampshire College from 1989 through 1999, as Assistant and Associate Professor of Biology. She conducted studies primarily on the AIDS epidemic, particularly as it affected women and people of color. She was also involved in AIDS education and advocacy during the first half of the 1990s. She was involved in several grant-funded projects to enhance in-service science education for educators in the region, particularly in terms of use of technology in the classroom. She also helped organize two conferences on technology in education, in 1998 and 1999.

Michelle has been involved in developing content and applications for the web, specifically for organizational, research and educational purposes, since 1994. In 1995, Michelle started a consulting practice that served the non-profit and educational sectors, primarily in the areas of developing database-driven web-sites, the implementation of Open Source software, and strategic technology planning. She is a nationally recognized leader in the nonprofit technology field. She is on the steering committee of the Non Profit Open Source Initiative (NOSI), and on the board of Aspiration, an organization that fosters software development in the nonprofit/NGO sector.

Michelle has written many articles and reports for scholarly journals, educational and nonprofit audiences, and the public. She is also a published poet, and a writer of speculative fiction.

Michelle is currently Systems Integration Lead at OpenIssue, a consulting firm that specializes in CRM and CMS solutions for nonprofit organizations and social enterprises.

Randal Pinkett

Second term runs through 2011
Dr. Randal Pinkett has established himself as an entrepreneur, scholar, author and speaker. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of BCT Partners, a multimillion dollar consulting firm based in Newark, NJ, that specializes in information technology, organizational development and public
policy. Dr. Pinkett holds five degrees including: a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University where he competed on the track and field team as a high jumper and long jumper; a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in England; and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering, MBA, and Ph.D. from MIT.

He has been featured on nationally televised programs such as The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, Nightline and Larry King Live. Most notably, he was the first African-American to be named a Rhodes Scholar at Rutgers University and was the winner of NBC’s hit reality television show, “The Apprentice”, with Donald Trump. Dr. Pinkett is the author of Campus CEO: The Student Entrepreneur’s Guide to Launching a Multimillion-Dollar Business and No-Money Down CEO: How to Start Your Dream Business with Little or No Cash and co-author of Black Faces in
White Places to be released in 2009.

Born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey, Dr. Pinkett is a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, and attends First Baptist Church in Somerset, NJ, where he resides. He is happily married to his wife, Zahara, and they are both proud parents of their daughter, Amira. Dr. Pinkett firmly believes that “for those to whom much is given, much is expected,” so throughout his endeavors, he places great emphasis on his desire to give back to the community.

Nancy Schwartz

First term runs through 2011

Nancy E. Schwartz helps nonprofits succeed through effective marketing and communications as the publisher of the Getting Attention blog and e-newsletter (www.gettingattention.org), and as President of New York City-based Nancy Schwartz & Company (NS&C). Nancy and her team at NS&C provide marketing planning and implementation services to organizations as varied as the Corporation for Supportive Housing, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Association of Mothers' Centers (NAMC), The New York Botanical Garden and the National Campaign for the Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy.

NS&C specialties include branding, communications planning, message development, online communications innovations (she stays way ahead of the curve to put these tools to work for clients ASAP) and developing revenue streams for nonprofit organizations.