TechSoup Global Team

She joined TechSoup six years ago as General Manager to launch and chart the growth of TechSoup Stock (www.techsoup.org/stock), our technology product donation distribution service. Most recently, Rebecca has been responsible for setting and driving TechSoup's international expansion strategy.

Under Rebecca's leadership as Vice President and General Manager, TechSoup Stock has channeled just fewer than three million donated and discounted technology products to a national and increasingly international nonprofit audience. To date, more than 184,000 requests have been processed and close to 70,000 organizations in 10 countries have received technology products through the program, freeing up more than $770 million for direct services.

Rebecca has an MBA from Columbia Business School. She is a frequent speaker, domestically and internationally, on social enterprise and volunteers for the nonprofit organization S.A.G.E. (Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship).

Mike is Director of TechSoup Global, with overall responsibility for the program. Mike started his career at IBM doing technical sales and consulting. He then moved to the Gap, where he led the technical team developing and running Gap.com. In 2000, he moved to Walmart.com, where he was VP of Engineering for 4+ years.

In 2005 he took a year long sabbatical, which included two months in South America, getting his real estate license, and attending seminary for two terms. Mike has been with TechSoup since March of 2006. He has a BA in Political Science from Lawrence University, and recently completed a certificate program in leadership coaching at Georgetown University. Mike loves to travel, read, golf, ride his bike to work and play with gadgets. He also volunteers at his church and two local nonprofits.

As Business Systems Architect for the TechSoup Global, Antony leads the technology strategy in partnership with IT and the extended organizational team.

Antony was co-founder of three software start-ups that provide database and web-based solutions to the non-profit sector. TLiteracyPro Systems is the market's leading provider of client management database software for over 1,200 literacy, adult education, and other community service organizations. Altrue (short for "altruism") has served over 400 organizations as a leading provider of web solutions for non-profits. Biotrue provides affordable web-based database solutions for academic biomedical researchers.

Prior to starting his own company, Antony advised technology start-ups as a corporate attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He earned his JD from Stanford Law School and his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Antony has served the community as a volunteer tutor, pro-bono legal counsel, and assisted with low income legal services at the Asian Law Caucus and East Palo Alto Community Law Project. He has served on the board of directors for the Legal Aid of San Mateo County and the Redwood City Friends of Literacy.

Dave Allen is an Applications Developer for TechSoup Global. Dave builds and maintains the TechSoup web services.

Prior to joining TechSoup, Dave spent 3 years teaching high school Math and Spanish. Before that, Dave worked primarily on large Java/J2EE projects, including a healthcare information consolidation initiative and several eCommerce projects. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, mountain biking, ultimate Frisbee, beach volleyball, and meditation. He loves to travel and has spent extended periods in numerous Latin American countries, Nepal, India, and China.

As Partner Accounts Coordinator with the TechSoup Global team, Djénéba's daily tasks consist of supporting the development of systems and processes focused on improving partner relations and communications.

She joined TechSoup in July 2005 as customer service representative for the TechSoup Stock domestic program and has since held various roles such as special orders processor, customer support and Cisco Cybergrants program assistant.

Prior to joining TechSoup, she worked as Technical support for a San Francisco-based dot-com and also as Technical Accounts Manager for Microsoft's office in the Ivory Coast – West Africa. She holds a BA in computer science from Université de Montréal and a Certificate in Marketing from HEC – Montréal.

Djénéba loves travel, reading and biking. But as a self-dubbed Chef, her preferred hobby is cooking gourmet dishes and creating her own recipes.

Helen Gore is an Operations Coordinator for TechSoup Global. Helen joined TechSoup Stock’s domestic operations in October 2005 and then joined the Global team in July 2006. Helen coordinates the daily operations of the program and provides direct support and training to the PNGOs and coordinates the operations activities with the TechSoup internal teams.

She also works with the TechSoup Global Tech Team on requirements, testing and implementation. She holds a BS in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing and Personnel Management and has worked for book and software publishing and consumer products companies in the areas of domestic and international sales and operations. Outside of work Helen enjoys reading, cooking and pampering a trio of adopted cats.

Katherine Esperanza is an Operations Coordinator for TechSoup Global. Katherine briefly temped for TechSoup Stock's domestic program as a Customer Service Representative in the summer of 2005. After a short departure working as a temp in a couple of other positions, Katherine triumphantly returned to TechSoup in the fall of 2006 as a permanent employee. Joining the TechSoup Global team in spring of 2007, Katherine has been running reports, assisting with inquiries and requests from our partner NGOs, and helping create the service systems that support our burgeoning program.

Prior to 2005, Katherine was a student across the bay at UC Berkeley where she participated in various aspects of the University Student Co-operative Association. When she isn’t figuring international time differences, Katherine enjoys going to organic farmers’ markets, finding out new facets of Oakland history, reading feminist theory on medieval studies, watching fútbol games from a variety of nations, riding out into the country, and watching good and very bad cinema.

Mark is our resident Partner Platform developer guru, utilizing open source tools like Drupal and CiviCRM to crank out storefront sites for TechSoup partner NGOs. He is also plugging in on syndication, another Drupal project.

Mark has been a web developer, sysadmin and free-software hacker for 12 years or so, most recently with GoodStorm, CivicActions and CivicSpace. He’s also dabbled in video and radio production, and gardening. Mark is originally from the DC area and moved out to the Bay in 2000.

Outside of work you can also find him online, as a media activist & pirate radio DJ. He does pro-bono web development for various grassroots projects. He will take up gardening again when he moves somewhere with space for one.

Mark has been with TechSoup since 1998. He has served in many functions at TechSoup, including developing its Year 2000 Service, developing the TechSoup business plan, managing Mentor Matching, Software and NPower/Bay Area Programs. More recently, he managed the development of the Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI), and organized the first NetSquared Conference in 2006.

Before joining TechSoup, Mark was a Computer Performance Analyst, Software Development Manager, and Consultant for various high tech firms, including Sun Microsystems, Andersen Consulting (now, Accenture), Rogue Wave Software, and BGS Systems. Mark has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C., Berkeley, and a B.S. from MIT. In the distant past, he traveled extensively, and lived several years in Hong Kong and Manila. More recently, he’s stayed closer to home with his wife Trina, Katie and Nathan (almost 5), and Alex (3 years old). The kids keep Mark and Trina very happy and busy, and we’re contemplating getting out a bit more now. We see trips to Disneyland and camping on the horizon. Mark loves to bike, and is very happy that Nathan and Katie have just graduated from training wheels. Now, they need to build up their endurance and bicycling smarts, so we can take do some real riding.

Philip is an application developer for the Partner Platform. He started off in web development working at a start-up to create a content management system for non-profits, and later ecommerce sites and custom database applications. Prior to joining TechSoup, he worked on a web-enabled system for managing and sharing biomedical research data. In his free time, Philip enjoys playing tennis and sharpening his graphic design skills.

Nick Eyre is International Sourcing Manager for TechSoup Global. Nick joined TechSoup in October 2006 to project manage the technical development and deployment of the Partner Platform.

For the 6 months previous to starting at TechSoup, he was Program Manager of the CTX Program for Charity Technology Trust, which was effectively the UK Pilot implementation of the TechSoup EMEA Software Donations Program.

Previous to working with CTT he was a Senior Technical Project Manager at Agilisys, a leading technology and business process services provider for the UK public and private sectors. Agilisys design, build and operate technology-enabled business solutions. Clients included AOL, McDonalds, Hewlett Packard and Last Minute.com.

He is based in the UK and personal interests outside of work include sailing and he has a season ticket for Arsenal football (soccer) club.

Sehat Rosny is a Software Contractor for TechSoup Global. He implements solutions to automate testing for CompuMentor and TechSoup Global. In the past, Sehat Rosny has done enterprise projects for Fortune 100 companies, educational market and start-up companies. These hands-on full cycle project experiences provide broad knowledge and background to fulfill a variety of software development roles such as Usability, Interface and Graphics design, .NET C# Developer / Architect and J2EE. In his free time, he likes to watch movies, eat out, travel and be involved in Web 2.0 stuff.

Tony Knox is the Director of Program Implementation and Operations for TechSoup Global. Tony joined TechSoup in January 2003 to scale operations. Prior to that, Tony spent five years in alternative healthcare helping to recruit practitioners and establish a standardized system for evaluating and assessing their credentials, while overseeing operations and member services for patient access programs to those practitioners.

He also spent a few years in managed healthcare training and auditing operations, including claims adjudication and customer service, and has contributed to the development and expansion of several ecommerce sites and CRM/ERP systems. In his free time, he has coached English as a second language and interpreted for hearing impaired in academic and business settings. He also enjoys travel and gardening. Tony holds a BA in English/Language Studies from San Francisco State University.

Vyria’s extensive international background includes residing, working, studying and traveling in Europe and Latin America. Her professional experience spans sectors including private, non-profit, and government work. Most recently she was International Partner Program Manager at a San Francisco software company. Vyria received her MBA in Global Management from Thunderbird and her BA in Economics/Business and International Studies from Westmont College.

Vyria loves all things international. This includes traveling (18 countries so far), languages (she speaks Spanish and Italian), politics/diplomacy (member of the World Affairs Council), food (Italian is the current favorite), and volunteering (social justice and economic development activities). She also enjoys hiking, reading, wine tasting, and engaging in great conversations with friends.