General Session - Partner Industry Panel

How is fundraising technology changing, and how will it help us connect with our donors? As with all technology, those of us in the philanthropic sector have been excited to imagine what might be possible. But ultimately our work is to connect people with causes, and develop relationships with institutions. What are the breakthroughs available today (or soon) that will allow us to do more and better work?

Learning Objectives:

Understand direction of fundraising technologies and key vendors in prospect development
Develop vision for future of work in fundraising and prospect development

Jon Garrow (Moderator)

Director of Prospect Development

Willamette University

Keya Hammond

Sam Venable

Principal Product Manager, Diagnostic Benchmarking,

Blackbaud

Chris Green

Mr

Xapien

Chris has 25 years’ leadership experience in businesses providing data-driven insight across Government, Law Enforcement, National Security and Financial Services clients.

He is currently co-founder and CEO of Xapien – an automated background research platform used by a number of leading universities and non-profits to distil insights from the vast and ever-expanding information space.

Chris began his career at Detica (now BAE Systems) providing technology strategy advice to Central Government agencies in the aftermath of 9/11.

He hence led a number of teams delivering fraud, compliance, cyber security and analytics systems into major private and public sector clients. His final role was Managing Director of the Financial Crime division, with 600 staff in 12 countries.

He left BAE to spend 2 years as Chief Commercial Officer at CallCredit, the challenger credit reference agency, prior to its acquisition by TransUnion for £1Bn.