Christina F. Ellwood

Christina is Chairman of the OfficePlease Foundation Board of Directors. A seasoned senior executive, Christina has over 19 years experience in the technology industry. Most recently, she founded and served as President and CEO of OfficePlease Inc., an intranet ASP service and currently advises early-stage technology companies. Prior to OfficePlease, she was the VP of Marketing for Sentient Networks until their acquisition by Cisco Systems. Previously, she was director of carrier development and marketing at Premisys, which was later acquired by Zhone. Prior to Premisys, she held business development and marketing positions with N.E.T. and Kevex Instruments. Christina is known for her strong, clear leadership and drive.

Jim Flach

Jim is a well known executive in the telecommunication and software industries in which he has worked for twenty-five years. A partner with Accel for eight years, he was formerly Chairman of Agile Networks, Netlink (Cabletron), Sentient Networks, Teleos Communications (Madge Networks), and Vivo Software. Jim currently serves as CEO of Terraspring. Jim was formerly the CEO of Wal-Mart.com. He also serves on the board of Bandwidth9 (where he served as CEO), CenterBeam, Freegate, GoDigital Telecommunications, Hybrid Networks (where he was formerly CEO), P-Cube, Primarion, RedBack Networks (RBAK) (where he also served as CEO), and Vertical Networks.

Previously, Jim was Vice President of Intel where he was General Manager of the Personal Computer Enhancement Division. He came to Intel in 1989 when Intel acquired his communications company, Jupiter Technology, where he had been CEO since 1986. Prior to joining Intel, Jim held numerous business and technical positions during a seventeen-year career at Xerox Corporation, including Vice President of Systems Engineering, and Vice President and General Manager of the Network Systems Business Unit, and was responsible for the worldwide P&L of the Xerox Network business.

Jim holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Milton E. Righetti

Milt has been an investor in, and an independent counsel for, early-stage companies since 1995. He currently sits on the Advisory Board and consults to Crystal Gate Corporation and Telenetwork. Milt founded WarpSpeed Communications with Michael Golden in December 1995. He co-authored the business plan, raised and contributed initial seed capital to fund the start-up, and served as CFO, secretary, vice president of business development, and corporate counsel for Warpspeed until June 1999. Prior to Warpspeed, he managed his own corporate and real estate law practice for 20 years, handling formations, acquisitions, liquidations, sales joint ventures, and mergers of client companies

Kathleen M. Daly, President/Executive Director

Kathleen has over 20 years of work experience within the technology sector. She has successfully directed and managed the implementation of numerous large scale systems for Fortune 100 companies domestically and internationally. She has worked with several of the pioneers in the "technology revolution", but has also long been motivated to help find ways of delivering the benefits of technology to nonprofit organizations and underserved communities. OPF offers her the ideal opportunity to help organizations proactively respond to - and benefit from - the structural and technical challenges of integrating technical tools.

"You can't spend 20 years in a career without making some mistakes. Those mistakes have been the real teacher," she says. Kathleen is committed to ensuring nonprofit organizations don't make the same errors. "We want to help guide nonprofit organizations through the process of effectively implementing and using technology. We want to share our knowledge with the resource stretched nonprofit so they can experience the value and benefits technology can offer without making the costly mistakes."

Kathleen is an avid animal lover and spends much of her free time working with local nonprofits that care for and place unwanted animals. She has also worked with seniors and youths-at-risk in computer learning programs. Currently, she is serving as a mentor to disadvantaged youths and low-income businesses owners.

Susan Underwood, VP, Business and Partner Development

Susan has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. As a Partner Alliance Manager at BEA Systems, Inc. from 1996 through 2000, Susan saw first-hand the effects of successful partnership. Prior to BEA Systems, Inc. Susan held positions in MIS, Consulting and Sales at Walker Interactive Systems. Before joining Walker, Susan ran a consulting company for 10 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked with a wide variety of companies in all facets of Information Technology - from system design through implementation. Susan has both technical and people skills which allow her to work both sides of the fence in IT. She holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration, Management from California State University, Chico.

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