Founding Sponsors & Launch Committee
We are especially grateful to the organizations and individuals who sponsored the TechSoup launch party on May 9, 2000.
Founding Sponsors
America Online
America Online, Inc., a division of AOL Time Warner, is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. With its hallmark focus on providing convenient easy-to-use services for mass market consumers, America Online has played a major role in creating the consumer online experience worldwide, and is leading the development of the next generation Internet. With this focus on consumers, AOL seeks to build a global medium as central to people's lives as the telephone or television …and even more valuable.
Aspect Communications
Aspect Communications is the leading provider of customer relationship portals—contact servers for managing dynamic customer transactions across all wired and wireless communication channels.
CNET
CNET Networks, Inc., is the global source of technology and commerce-related information, data, exchanges and services for people and businesses. As a top 10 Internet company with established Web sites in 25 countries and 16 languages, CNET Networks connects buyers, sellers and suppliers throughout the IT supply chain with award-winning content via the Web, wireless devices, television, radio and print. Its respected brand portfolio includes CNET, ZDNet, mySimon, News.com, TV.com, Computer Shopper magazine, SmartPlanet.com and CNET Radio, as well as CNET Channel Services, including CNET Data Services. The company's vision is to educate and empower people and businesses by unlocking the potential of the technology world to make things easier and faster, and by helping them to make smarter buying decisions.
Edward Jung
Edward Jung is a member of Intellectual Ventures, a private partnership between Nathan Myhrvold and Edward Jung. The partnership is a vehicle through which Drs. Myhrvold and Jung can share resources to efficiently create companies, make investments and support philanthropic interests that reflect their ideas and visions.
Microsoft
Microsoft's vision is to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. As the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing, Microsoft strives to produce innovative products and services that meet their customers' evolving needs.
Morino Institute
Created in 1994, the Morino Institute is a nonprofit organization that explores the opportunities and risks of the Internet and the New Economy to advance social change. Our work is focused in four key areas: stimulating entrepreneurship, advancing a more effective philanthropy, closing social divides and understanding the relationship and impact of the Internet on our society.
Novell
Novell, Inc. is a leading provider of Net services software that secures and powers all types of networks-intranets, the Internet and extranets; corporate and public; wired to wireless—as one Net, across leading operating systems.
Penninsula Community Foundation
The Peninsula Community Foundation is one of the fastest growing philanthropic foundations in the country. Since 1964, they have helped people on the San Francisco Peninsula and throughout Silicon Valley invest in Bay Area communities and beyond. The Foundation, its donors, and its partners in philanthropy provide nonprofit and public organizations with funding in support of children and families, education, housing, health and human services, the environment and community arts and culture. They serve as a means through which individuals and corporations carry out their charitable goals.
San Francisco Foundation
The San Francisco Foundation mobilizes resources and guides their use to promote vibrant, sustainable communities throughout the Bay Area. In service to the people of our community, we partner with diverse organizations and donors to create new opportunities and to be a catalyst for change.
Surdna Foundation
The Surdna Foundation was established in 1917 by John Emory Andrus to pursue a range of philanthropic purposes. Their current goals are to prevent irreversible damage to the environment and to promote more efficient, economically sound, environmentally beneficial and equitable use of land and natural resources.
Launch Event Committee
Event Chair
Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Novell, Inc.
Event Co-Chairs
- Shelby Bonnie, C.E.O., C|Net
- Walt De Petris, National Practice Manager, Microsoft Corp.
- David Eisner, Vice President and Treasurer, AOL Foundation
- Sandra Hernandez, C.E.O., San Francisco Foundation
- Beatriz Infante, President and C.E.O., Aspect Communications
- Edward Jung, Co-President, Intellectual Ventures
- Mario Morino, President, The Morino Institute
- Barry Schuler, President, Interactive Services, AOL Online, Inc.
- Edward Skloot, Executive Director, The Surdna Foundation
- Sterling Speirn, President, Peninsula Community Foundation
Event Sponsors
- Adobe Systems
- Broderick Associates
- CarStation
- Pottruck-Scott Family Foundation
- Pacific Bell
Host Committee
- Marcia Argyris, McKessonHBOC Foundation
- Jay Backstrand, Impact Online
- David Bank
- Francois Bar
- Jennifer Beckett, CompuMentor
- Daniel Ben-Horin, CompuMentor
- Maggie Beretz, CompuMentor
- Blueprint R&D
- Amy Bonetti
- Jackie Brand, Alliance for Technology Access
- Laura Breeden
- Ruth Brousseau, The California Wellness Foundation
- China Brotsky, eGrants.org, Tides Center
- Jon Carroll
- Denise Caruso
- Michael Christman, OPTS Events
- John Coate, SFGate
- Lucia Corral, The California Wellness Foundation
- Cathy Cook
- Steve Coulter, Pacific Bell
- Peter Crosby, GirlGeeks.com
- Lou Delzompo, NetSchools
- Walt De Petris, Microsoft Corporation
- Jed Emerson, Roberts Economic Development Foundation
- Doug Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute
- Magda Escobar, Plugged In
- Julie Evans, NetDay
- Phil Ferrante-Roseberry, CompuMentor
- Albert Fong
- Mike Gaitley, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco
- Larry Geisel, Organic
- David Goldsmith, IAPPS
- Susan Graham & Michael Harrison
- Ann Gressani
- Bob Grimm
- Herbert Chao Gunther, Public Media Center
- Katie Hafner
- Teri Hernandez, Strategic Solutions
- Peter Hero, Community Foundation Silicon Valley
- Mike Howe, East Bay Community Foundation
- Allan Hunt-Badiner
- The James Irvine Foundation
- Annabelle Ison, Ison Design
- Robert Kardon, Center for Excellence in Nonprofits
- Sam Karp, California Health Care Foundation
- Doug Keiller, Allbusiness.com
- David Kline
- Jennifer Konecny-Costa, Novell, Inc.
- Bruce Koon, Mercury Center
- Jim Lewis, MCI WorldCom
- Pete Leyden
- Dr. Mark Liu, CompuMentor
- Ethel Long-Scott, Women's Economic Agenda Project
- Jim Lynch, CompuMentor
- Larry Magid
- John Markoff
- Jerry Marks
- Jan Masaoka, CompassPoint
- Jane Metcalfe
- Charlie Moore, Carstation.com
- Dave Moore, NetSchools
- Raymond Nasr, Novell, Inc.
- Craig Newmark, Craig's List
- Chris Nolan
- Peter Pike, PikeNet
- Kim Polese, Marimba, Inc.
- Wade Randlett, Red Gorilla
- Howard Rheingold
- Dan Ruby, destinationCRM.com
- Dr. Harry Saal, Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley
- Steve Sacks, Perkins Coie LLP
- Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future
- Jane Sanderson
- Michael Saunders, HandsNet
- Peter Schmitz, Sun Microsystems
- Kary Schulman, Grants For the Arts
- Dana Serleth, Every Child Can Learn Foundation
- Jennifer Sims, Aspect Communications
- Amy Schoenborn
- John Schweizer & Andy Reinhardt
- Eric Sloan, Charles and Helen Schwab Family Foundation
- David Spitzler, Bigstep.com
- Steinhart & Falconer LLP
- Karen Wickre, Violet
- Ann Wrixson, SeniorNet
- Teri Yeager, William Randolph Hearst Foundation
