Lynn Labieniec (Board Chair)

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 [1]. She has developed technology strategies for clients such as the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research Foundation [2], United Way of America [3], Planned Parenthood [4], and others.

Before co-founding Beaconfire, Lynn served on Commerce One [5]'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 [6], 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. [7] 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 [8]'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)

Mr. Schreiber is the Executive Vice President for Enterprise Services at United Way of America, which houses 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.

In addition to NTEN, Mr. Schreiber sit on the board of the ePhilanthropy Foundation. He has a BA in Economics from Stanford University, a Certificate in African Studies from Stanford, and an MBA from Duke University.

Sheeraz Haji (Board Treasurer)

As the CEO and a co-founder of GetActive Software [9], Sheeraz has led the Company to become a leading provider of member relationship management software. Before GetActive, Sheeraz was managing a product management team at Digital Impact [10]. Sheeraz has also worked as a strategy consultant in the San Francisco office of management consulting firm McKinsey & Company [11]. As part of their high-tech and Internet practices, he focused primarily on software, hardware, and telecommunication clients. At McKinsey, Sheeraz most frequently addressed issues of corporate strategy, market entry, and operational effectiveness. Sheeraz has also worked as an Associate in the Washington DC office of the consulting firm Environ International [12]. Sheeraz has a BS from Brown University [13] and a MS from Stanford University [14].

Lauren-Glenn Davitian (Board Secretary)

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 public telecommunications and first amendment issues both locally and in the state capital. Her most recent project is updating Vermont's cable statutes. Ms. Davitian is founder and executive director of CCTV [15]'s Center for Media and Democracy and oversees Channel 17/Town Meeting Television (a regional government access TV channel), CyberSkills/Vermont (a community technology center with a focus on nonprofits and low income job seekers) and CCTV Productions (a nonprofit media production and distribution unit). Ms. Davitian is a founding member and serves on the board of Vermont Access Network (a trade group of 27 public access tv centers in Vermont). She currently serves on the editorial board of the Alliance for Community Media [16]'s Community Media Review and is working on a spectrum policy handbook, due out in Spring 2005. Ms.Davitian was named one of Vermont's "25 most influential people" in the mid 1990's. She is a graduate of the University of Vermont (B.A. in Anthropology, Phi Beta Kappa, 1982).

David Barnard

David Barnard is the Executive Director of the Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT) (since 1 June 2000). Before joining SANGONeT, he managed the Programme for Development Research (PRODDER) at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) (1992-2000), establishing the PRODDER Directory as the most comprehensive publication on development organizations in Africa.

He has published and contributed to more than 30 development publications. His areas of expertise include the role of the international development and funding community in Southern Africa, the role of the NGO sector in Southern Africa, corporate citizenship and the involvement of the corporate sector in development issues, and the contribution of information and ICT in support of development processes. He serves on President Mbeki’s National Commission on the Information Society for Development (PNC-ISD).

David Barnard holds BA and BA (Hons) degrees (both cum laude) from the University of Stellenbosch, and has participated in management training at Cranfield University (UK) and City University of New York (USA).

Patrick Collins

Patrick Collins is the Chief Information Officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He heads the Foundation’s IT department, participates in the evaluation of IT-related grant proposals, and manages a small portfolio of special projects grants.

Prior to joining the Hewlett Foundation in 2005, Mr. Collins was the Director of Information and Communication Services at the University of California Office of the President. There he directed a 65-member information technology group that provided IT services for 2,200 employees at UC’s headquarters and managed the corporate data warehouse for the system’s ten campuses and five academic medical centers. He also developed and directed the University’s IT Strategic Sourcing Program, which involved negotiating and managing contracts for $200 million in annual IT purchases. Mr. Collins’ innovative work in the area of IT purchasing was recognized in a Redmond Magazine cover story in November 2004.

Before entering university administration, Mr. Collins directed two academic data centers – the California Census Research Data Center located at UCLA and UC Berkeley, and the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at Cornell University. In addition to administering these centers, he contributed to many scholarly publications as a data analyst, statistician, and author.

Mr. Collins has a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he graduated first in his class.

Phil Ferrante-Roseberry

Phil Ferrante-Roseberry joined CompuMentor in 1995 as a project manager after a software engineering career in Massachusetts, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Phil's relationship with CompuMentor goes back to the early 90s when he was one of their volunteer 'mentors'; in fact, it was a CompuMentor match that introduced Phil to his wife, Lydia, who was the executive director of small organization with big computer problems. Phil and Lydia and their two cats (Dana and Rumi) now live in a cohousing community [17] in downtown Oakland.

Jorge Martinez

Jorge is the Director of Information Systems at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation [18], and has extensive experience as systems engineer and end user support, the most recent being with The Miami Herald [19]. Jorge is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer science at Barry University [20]. He is a Microsoft certified professional, and a Microsoft certified systems engineer.

Michelle Murrain

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. Michelle taught at Hampshire College from 1989 through 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 nonprofit and educational sectors, primarily in the areas of developing database-driven web sites, the implementation of open source software, and strategic technology planning.

Michelle is currently principal of MetaCentric Technology Advising [21], a technology consulting practice focused on helping nonprofits implement open source software, and helping technology providers and vendors who serve the sector add open source software and support to their product and service mixes. She does this work through consulting, planning, training, evaluation and technical writing.

Michelle is a nationally recognized leader in the nonprofit technology field. She blogs on the nonprofit technology field at Zen and the art of Nonprofit Technology [22]. She is on the steering committee of the Non Profit Open Source Initiative (NOSI), and was a past member of the board of Aspiration, an organization that fosters software development in the nonprofit/NGO sector.

Randal Pinkett

Dr. Randal Pinkett is the President and Chief Executive Officer of BCT Partners [23], a management, technology and policy consulting firm that works with corporations, nonprofit organizations and government agencies to improve organizational effectiveness and support strategies for change.

A nationally recognized expert in the strategic use of technology, Dr. Pinkett is a graduate of the renowned MIT Media Laboratory. He has corporate experience as a Member of Technical Staff at General Electric, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Lucent Technologies. He also served for seven years as the Founder, President and CEO of MBS Educational Services & Training, a company committed to providing the highest caliber training and development for academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and Fortune 500 companies. 

Katrin Verclas

Katrin Verclas' background is in IT and project management in nonprofit organizations, community organizing, community engagement, political advocacy, and relationship management, and she has also spent considerable time in her professional life as a program officer for a number of grantmaking and philanthropic initiatives

Katrin coordinates MobileActive, a global network of activists and NGOs using mobile phones for social change. She served as Executive Director of NTEN from 2006-2007.

She previously co-directed Aspiration: Better Tools for a Better World, a nonprofit organization focused on providing software-related services and resources to other nonprofit organizations. Before that, she worked as a consultant, deputy director of a holding organization of funds, and as a program officer.

Board Members Emeritus

Gavin Clabaugh [24], Charles Stewart Mott Foundation [25]

Barbara Chang, NPower NY [26]

Bill Lester, EngenderHealth [27]

Ami Dar, Idealist.org [28]

Michael Gilbert, The Gilbert Center [29]

David Eisner, Corporation for National and Community Service [30]

Marc Osten, Consultant [31]

Jillaine Smith, Grantmakers for Organizational Effectiveness [32]

Vince Stehle, Surdna Foundation [33]