Board of Directors

Jim Bankoff
Senior Advisor
Providence Equity Partners

As one of the most accomplished executives in the consumer internet business, Jim Bankoff advises companies on their online media strategies: how to appeal to customers and advertisers alike with innovative and intuitive web services. He currently advises Providence Equity Partners on their new media investments. Jim left his post as EVP, Programming and Products at AOL in January 2007 where he led a global team of content programmers, designers and web developers that developed websites and applications for an audience of over 100MM.

Under Jim's leadership, AOL’s broadcast of Live 8 made history as the first non-traditional program to win an Emmy Award. Bankoff spearheaded product development of the new AOL.com which launched in July 2005 and has led the development of websites such as TMZ.com, the #1 entertainment news website with Warner Bros. Telepictures division. He presided over dozens of world-class consumer web sites such as Moviefone, Mapquest, BloggingStocks, AOL Music and Engadget. Jim also oversaw AOL’s industry-leading Instant Messaging services, AIM, and ICQ, and new social networking and community applications including Blogsmith and Netscape.com.

Over the years, Bankoff has served as President of AOL Web Properties, responsible for Netscape, CompuServe, Moviefone, MapQuest, ICQ, and AOL Instant Messenger services where he coordinated the integration of online properties across Time Warner.

In addition, Bankoff serves on the Boards of Audible, Qloud and Network for Good. He received a master's of business administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University.

Ben Binswanger
Chief Operating Officer
The Case Foundation

Over the last two decades, Ben Binswanger has held senior leadership positions in the government, business, and nonprofit sectors. Ben began his career as a political consultant for numerous Democratic candidates, and served for more than five years as Senator Edward Kennedy’s senior political advisor. From 1995-97, Ben worked for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art as the Director of Business Development.

After serving as the senior communications officer at Telespectrum Worldwide, a publicly traded direct marketing company with $150 million in annual revenue and 8,500 employees, Ben joined America Online, Inc. (AOL) in 1999 as vice president for corporate communications. At AOL, he coordinated speech writing for Steve Case and other AOL executives, produced annual reports in 1999 and 2000, launched the company’s first employee intranet, and managed AOL’s employee giving and volunteer programs.

Ben currently manages strategic planning and operations for the Case Foundation, and sits on the boards of Demos, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Scott Case
Chairman
Network for Good

Timothy "Scott" Case is a technologist, entrepreneur and inventor and was co-founder of priceline.com, the "Name Your Own Price" Internet service. As Chief Technology Officer, he was responsible for building the technology that enabled priceline.com's hyper-growth. Moving beyond technology he successfully launched several priceline.com businesses. These included Priceline for Gasoline, by far the firm's fastest growing business. At the Walker Digital Invention Laboratory, Scott helped build a portfolio of intellectual property, and is a named inventor on dozens of U.S. patents including the underlying portfolio for priceline.com. Previously, Scott co-founded Precision Training Software, a software company that developed the world's first PC-based simulated flight instructor and photo-realistic flight simulator.

In 2006, Scott joined the Malaria No More team to inspire individuals and institutions in the private sector to end deaths cause by malaria. He continues to build social enterprises that use technology, commercial processes, and incentives to create sustainable, scalable solutions to improve people's lives.

Kevin Conroy
Executive Vice President, Products
AOL LLC

As Executive Vice President of Products, AOL LLC, Kevin Conroy is responsible for developing and operating AOL's desktop, mobile and IPTV products around the globe. Conroy is also responsible for developing new distribution models and partnerships for the company's products, tools and technologies, and recently launched partnerships with ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC to make AOL the only portal with agreements to offer primetime programming from all four major television networks. Previously, Conroy served as Executive Vice President of AOL for Broadband, where he launched the first online service specifically designed for consumers with a high-speed connection. He also launched AOL Music On Demand on Time Warner Digital Cable. Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of AOL Entertainment, responsible for developing and directing AOL's entertainment strategy and overseeing program development, programming partnerships, and original production. Conroy joined AOL in 2001 to build AOL Music and launched AOL Radio and AOL Sessions, among many other popular AOL products and original programming.

Prior to joining AOL, Conroy was Chief Marketing Officer and President of New Technology at BMG Entertainment, where he was responsible for overseeing marketing and new media development for BMG's businesses, and managed the worldwide marketing campaigns for some of the world's biggest artists. Prior to BMG Entertainment, Conroy was Vice President, Marketing at CBS/FOX VIDEO, where he had overall management responsibility for Non-Theatrical, Sports & Fitness video business. Conroy began his career in the advertising business at Leonard Monahan, a leading creative agency in New England. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College and lives with his family in Washington, DC.

Rich D'Amato (Board Secretary)
Answer Bar, LLC

Gary Dillabough
Vice President
eBay, Inc.

Gary Dillabough has been helping to lead the efforts at eBay to develop a Global Citizenship program. Gary and his team have begun work on developing a strategy and plan for this first of a kind program for eBay. In addition Gary and his team are building out eBay’s Environmental strategy.

Previously, Gary was the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for eBay. In this role, he lead a team in developing and managing long term, strategic marketing partnerships with over 75 companies such as, IBM, Sun, UPS, USPS, MBNA, MasterCard, Toyota, Fidelity, Intel and Fox Studio’s. These relationships provided various types of value to eBay, its community, and eBay’s partners. During his 8 years at eBay, Gary has held leadership roles in Business Development and Category Management. Prior to joining eBay, Gary was the Director of Business Development for a few high growth internet companies which included Visto and Improvenet. Before getting involved in the internet, Gary was the VP of Operations for Media Arts Group, where he managed Manufacturing, Customer Support and the IT Organization.

Meg Garlinghouse
Senior Director, Yahoo! for Good
Yahoo! Inc.

Meg Garlinghouse oversees Yahoo! for Good (http://brand.yahoo.com), the company’s community relations initiative. Yahoo! for Good is committed to making a difference by empowering its users and employees with products and services that inspire them to make a positive impact on the world.

By leveraging Yahoo!’s biggest asset -- its community of more than 500 million users, Garlinghouse and her team have connected consumers with causes that matter most to them. Most recently, Garlinghouse has led several initiatives to raise awareness of climate change by helping to build the www.18seconds.org site, which tracks compact-fluorescent light bulbs (CFL) sales data as part of an industry effort to educate Americans about cost-savings and environmental benefits of CFLs. She also facilitated a campaign to find the greenest city in America and organized the first employee volunteer Green Team, tasked with reducing Yahoo!’s carbon footprint and improving overall environmental practices at the company. Garlinghouse has also organized several campaigns to raise millions of dollars for disaster relief and generate consumer pledges for various causes and charities.

Garlinghouse has nearly ten years of experience working in the technology and philanthropy sector. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Garlinghouse worked at Netcentives, an Internet marketing company, where she founded its nonprofit partnership program that helped charities raise money on the Internet. She also has a background in international development, working for the Asia Foundation as special assistant to the president and in the private sector development department of the World Bank. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa, running projects designed to raise the social and economic status of rural villagers. Garlinghouse received her Bachelor’s degree in public policy studies from Duke University and a Master's in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Murray Gaylord (currently on leave of absence)
Vice President Marketing
NYTimes.com

Alisa Gravitz
Executive Director
Co-op America

A nationally recognized leader in social and environmental responsibility, Alisa Gravitz is currently the executive director of Co-op America, a nonprofit investor and consumer education organization. She manages programs galvanizing a consumer-citizen force of more than one million people to urge corporations to improve their social and environmental responsibility. She also co-authored Co-op America's guide to social investing. Alisa is also vice president of the Social Investment Forum, a national nonprofit investment industry association. Previously, Alisa worked in the Carter Administration on energy policy. She sits on the board of directors for the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economics (CERES), the Social Venture Network, and the Positive Futures Network.

Alisa is the 1995 recipient of the Social Responsibility Investing Services Award and was recently named by Green Business Letter as one of the most important people who are changing the way companies think about the environment. She earned an MBA from Harvard and her bachelor's degree in economics and environmental sciences from Brandeis University.

John Klaffky (Board Treasurer)
Managing Director, Nonprofit Services
BearingPoint

John Klaffky is a Managing Director at BearingPoint in the Non-Profit Consulting Practice, with over 25 years of experience in consulting with major corporations and nonprofits. He specializes in business performance improvement, large systems integration, program management, and cost analysis. Mr. Klaffky leads technology development teams in designing and implementing new financial systems and shared service centers, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Drummond Pike
CEO
Tides

Drummond Pike founded Tides in 1976 and is the chief executive officer of the Tides network of organizations, which includes Tides Foundation, Tides Center and Tides Shared Spaces. Pike is responsible for the entire Tides enterprise; and through his leadership, Tides has helped increase the capacity and effectiveness of thousands of social change organizations. Awarded as an Outstanding Foundation Professional, Pike helped pioneer the advent of donor advised funds in philanthropy and has supported grassroots and public interest organizations through environmental and social change philanthropy throughout his career.

Prior to founding Tides, Pike served as executive director of the Shalan Foundation, an organization dedicated to economic change and environmental sustainability. He also co-founded and served as associate director for the Youth Project in Washington, D.C. Pike’s entrepreneurialism has led to the founding of several other organizations as well. He was among the original founders of Working Assets, a telecommunications company dedicated to progressive philanthropy and political activism. He also helped to found Tides Canada, a sister organization to Tides in the U.S., and Groundspring.org, a nonprofit technology service provider which merged with Network for Good in 2005.

Pike majored in Political Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he became involved in the anti-war movement of the late 1960’s. He was selected as campus representative to the Board of Regents during his senior year in 1969, and graduated with Honors from UC Santa Cruz in 1970. Pike continued his education at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University where he obtained a Master’s Degree in Political Science.

Danica Remy
Managing Director
Tides

In 2003 Danica Remy joined Tides Inc as Managing Director where she oversees all information technology and administrative operations for the Tides organizations. Tides has a combined revenue of $150M, core staff of 135 and extended staff of 750+ annually. Working closely with the Executive and Senior Management of Tides, she coordinates the strategic activities for the Tides organizations.

Prior to joining Tides, Danica was Vice President Operations at Organic Inc., an Internet services company, where she was a member of the executive team reporting to the CEO. She also served as Vice President for Knowledge Universe, Inc., an education holding company, where she worked with Chairman Michael Milken and was responsible for IT shared services infrastructure strategies for the 45 companies comprising Knowledge Universe's company portfolio. From 1997-1998 she served at Vice President Engineering & Product Development at Inquisit, an Internet start-up specializing in competitive business intelligence using agent technology. She was responsible for product development, network operations and information systems. Under her guidance she led the company through three enterprise application releases, developed two new product lines and three key strategic alliances. The company was acquired in 1998 by Ask Jeeves.

Denise Shephard
CTO
MicroEdge, Inc.

In April of 2007 MicroEdge, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Advent Software (NASDAQ: ADVS) and leading provider of solutions for the grant-making community worldwide, appointed Denise Shephard as Chief Technology Officer.

In 2003 Denise founded Collaborative Standards specializing in software for grant-making and relationship management for corporate, community and private foundations. Kintera acquired Collaborative Standards in July 2005 where Denise served as Vice President of Product until January 2006.

From 1998 until 2003 she actively participated in numerous philanthropic activities centered on early childhood, family support and economic development issues for low-income families. Her current board affiliations include: Network for Good and the Sophia Project. Her previous board affiliations include Social Venture Partners, Northern California Grantmakers, and Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC).

In 1991 Microsoft recruited her to work on the MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 she was instrumental in managing the planning and development of a number of Microsoft’s core products, including Windows 95, Windows NT, and Internet Explorer.

Bill Strathmann
CEO
Network for Good

Bill Strathmann is Network for Good's CEO and is a member of its Board of Directors. He is a social entrepreneur, who throughout his career has traversed sectors, bringing good business practices to corporations and nonprofits alike. Bill came to Network for Good from BearingPoint, where he provided strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions consulting to corporations and nonprofit organizations across the nation. With Andersen Business Consulting, he developed and led a consulting practice serving large nonprofits including the Nature Conservancy, National Geographic Society, National Association of Home Builders, and the United Way.

Throughout his career, Bill has been an influential speaker on the topics of philanthropy, the role of technology in fundraising, corporate social responsibility, strategic planning, performance management and mergers and acquisitions. Bill is a co-author featured in the book, People to People Fundraising - How Individuals and Nonprofits can Leverage the Internet for Great Causes. He has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Haverford College and a master's degree in business administration from the Darden School at the University of Virginia. Bill serves in advisory roles for the Nonprofit Congress, Independent Sector and the Social Enterprise Alliance, and he also serves on the boards of The Anacostia Watershed Society and The Shohola Scholarship Fund.

Tien Tzuo
Chief Strategy Officer
salesforce.com

Tien Tzuo joined Salesforce.com in 1999 as the 10th employee, when the company was still operating out of a house on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Since then, Tien has been responsible for setting the vision, strategy, direction for and design of the first 17 releases of Salesforce.com’s award winning product line, including overseeing the launch of Salesforce, Supportforce, Customforce, Sforce, Multiforce, Airforce Wireless Edition, and the AppExchange. In 2004, Tzuo was named CMO of the Year Finalist by the CMO Council and BusinessWeek Magazine. In his current role as Chief Strategy Officer, Tien is responsible for chartering Salesforce.com’s expansion into new markets, including the company’s successful foray into financial services and into Fortune 500 accounts. Tien is also widely recognized as one of the thought leaders in the software-as-a-service industry. His podcast on the Secrets of Salesforce have been downloaded over 100,000 times since it was published.

Tzuo came to salesforce.com from CrossWorlds Software, where he spearheaded CrossWorlds product, marketing and sales push into the Telecommunications vertical worldwide. Prior to CrossWorlds, Tzuo spent over six years at Oracle Corporation in a variety of sales and professional services roles. Mr. Tzuo holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and an master’s in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Mike Yutrzenka
Executive Director
Cisco Systems Foundation

With over fifteen years experience at Cisco Systems in a variety of roles, Michael Yutrzenka brings with him a broad understanding of Cisco and the community as the leader of the Cisco Foundation.

Appointed Executive Director of the Cisco Systems Foundation in September 2003, Michael and his team are focusing on supporting Internet enabled solutions to transform education, empower communities, and increase efficiency and effectiveness in non-profit organizations. He joined Corporate Philanthropy in June 2000, initially to lead the effort to help the nonprofit sector leverage Internet technology and build collaborative partnerships. In his roles he has lead several programs and initiatives including the Community Fellowship Program, Leadership Fellows Program, Philanthropy Employee Engagement, Matching Gifts, Volunteerism Initiatives, and Product and Cash Grant Programs.

Michael currently serves on the board of directors for Network for Good, the American Red Cross Corporate Advisory Council, the Conference Board Corporate Contributions Council, advisor for Building Blocks International, and previously on the board of Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. Prior to joining Corporate Philanthropy, he held several roles at Cisco in business development, acquisition integration, channel partnerships and strategic account management.

Michael has over twenty years of international experience. He previously held positions in customer support, systems analysis, engineering, sales, and management. Immediately prior to Cisco, he was Vice President, International Sales for Arix Corporation. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of North Dakota.