Sam Adiv is the Founder and CEO of OpenTent, a Salesforce consulting team creating long-term strategic partnerships with extraordinary nonprofits. Sam lives in Denver with his wife (Amalia), baby (Lev), and dog (Ziva).

For the past two decades, Aimee has focused on building human-centric high-performing teams in the consulting and technology space. The last ten years have been fully dedicated to social impact sectors, including Education and Nonprofits, as a part of the vibrant and growing Salesforce ecosystem. Aimee lives just north of Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband and three sons. She is an avid hobby baker, and lover of all things science fiction including books and movies.

Sam Dorman has been on a decades-long mission to help nonprofit organizations leverage the power of technology to support and superpower their work. His firm The Build Tank is well known for its insightful thought leadership and its forward-thinking model for highly effective, human-centered technology.

Yolanda Fintschenko, PhD, is a scientist who began creating marketing strategies to sell products to scientists and engineers in 2015 having cofounded two digital marketing businesses, Fixate.IO and FounderTraction. Prior to this she served as director of marketing and sales for LabSmith, marketing manager for ThermoFisher Scientific, and was a managerand scientist at Sandia National Labs for 9 years. Yolanda’s field of technical expertise is microfluidics. She foundedthe Gordon Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics, holds three patents, is co-editor of the book “Microscale Analytical Systems”, and has 41 publications including peer-reviewed journal articles, presentations, and book chapters in the fields of microfluidics, micro separations, pesticide analysis, and lab education. Yolanda graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 1992 from Trinity University in San Antonio,TX and her Ph.D. in Bioanalytical Chemistry from The University of Kansas in 1997. In addition to her professional work, she currently serves as a City of Livermore Planning Commissioner and co-organizes the East Bay Bio Network. Her hobbies include running, swimming, cooking, and writing.

Jen Frazier founded Firefly Partners in 2007 and has more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. During her tenure at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Jen started their first online action network and helped build a database of more than 500,000 pro-choice supporters. She was also part of the team that planned and executed the March for Women's Lives in 2004, one of the great accomplishments of her life and career. Jen is passionate about Firefly's clients - she loves to hear what motivates them and to think of creative ways our team can help them move their missions forward.

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Rachel has been leading teams supporting impact organizations on the Salesforce platform for over a decade. She also co-designed and co-facilitates the Amplify Leadership Academy, dedicated to advancing people from historically excluded groups into leadership roles in tech.

As the Director of the Sensiba Center for Sustainability, Jennifer specializes in holistic sustainable business transformations and authentic impact reporting. She also is hosts the Rebooting Capitalism podcast. Jennifer has been recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the Most Influential Women in Business and Accounting Today as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting.

Dr. Nan Ho is an award-winning educator, researcher, and leader at Las Positas College, where she currently serves as Vice President of Academic Services. Throughout her career, Dr. Ho has nurtured strong relationships across the community and region and partnered with education, industry, government, and nonprofits to create opportunities that benefit students and enrich the culture and economic vitality of the region. Nan earned her doctorate from the University of Southern California and her Master’s and Bachelor’s from Stanford University.

Rachel M. Kimber, Managing Director of Full Circle Impact Solutions, is a philanthropic strategist, technology futurist, and nonprofit executive. She is committed to human-centered, data-informed, and technology-supported grantmaking and is passionate about advancing emergent nonprofit practices that support equity, access, inclusion, and technological innovation. Rachel has served on local nonprofit boards and within international nonprofits, both small family foundations and global grantmaking NGOs, and has volunteered and mentored in various capacities with PEAK Grantmaking, Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG), Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, and Philanthropy New York.

Rachel holds a Master of Business Leadership and a Master of Public Administration, and a BA in Cognitive Science from Northwestern University.

Tracy has over 25 years’ experience in service to Mission-Driven organizations. They hold a Master of Public Administration degree from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service and are a Salesforce MVP alum. Tracy lives in Livermore, CA where they are a Planning Commissioner and helped co-found Livermore Pride.

With 15 years of HR and People Operations experience in the for-profit, non-profit, and higher education sectors, Mandy has honed her expertise in a wide variety of people operations areas. Throughout her career, she has successfully led initiatives in talent acquisition, strategic planning, employee engagement, performance management, compliance, people technology and data analytics, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

Tim Lockie has been in nonprofits and tech for over 20 years. Over the last decade, he founded Now IT Matters and The Human Stack, dedicated to helping nonprofits succeed with their technology.

In 2021, Tim developed and launched Digital Guidance®, a methodology designed to move nonprofits from tech-resistant to tech-resilient and transform the nonprofit industry into a human-centered digital space.

Marianna Marysheva is a seasoned executive with over two decades of organizational leadership experience. Marianna earned her Master in Public Policy degree from UC Berkeley, and has served various cities in California, including San Francisco, Oakland, Riverside, Irvine and now Livermore.

Marianna’s significant local government experience has shaped her into an innovative and creative leader with a track record of implementing programs to promote transparency and open government, building partnerships and promoting collaboration, and getting things done in organizations with multiple cross-pressures and competing priorities. Marianna has a track record of recharging and refocusing governmental functions, and making governmental entities more transparent, flexible, customer and business friendly, and accountable.

Marianna has been recognized for her commitment to public service, cross-agency leadership, public engagement, staff development, compassion and commitment to excellence. Marianna was named the 2012 Person of the Year in Mammoth Lakes and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Minea is responsible for building a thriving and equitable ecosystem of Salesforce partners that drives customer success. Minea’s deep experience in the tech industry includes roles in supply chain management, human resources, and global procurement for Fortune 100 companies. A self-proclaimed “Corporate Entrepreneur”, Moore is a global thinker with an entrepreneurial mindset who has coached many business leaders over her career. Her greater calling is to accelerate sustained growth by organizing around purpose, impact, and meaningful business practices. When she’s not building inclusive programs and communities, Minea is passionate about real estate investing in her home city of Phoenix, AZ.

Jamie’s experience spans nonprofit program management, SaaS and Professional Service sales, and partnership development. She's a rare one with a solid understanding of nonprofit operations and program impact and start-up/scaling tech business development.

Her background in social work along with her instrinsic love for collaboration has lead her on a journey from Capitol Hill advocating for mental health parity, to redefining performance for the United Way Worldwide network, to bringing social influencer engagement to Blackbaud, and now, scaling the already extremely successful partnership program at Fundraise Up.

Jamie lives in Hillsboro, VA with her husband and twin daughters along with their dogs, cats, rabbits, fish, and soon to be chickens.

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With over 20 years of experience in growing ecosystems, Amy is not only a CEO but also a Chief Experience Officer - helping businesses, mission-driven organizations, and leaders like you connect to your cares and meet your goals.

With a B.A. from the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Amy has applied her focus on Human Rights, Sustainable Development, and Diplomacy to her work developing ecosystems and deepening relationships at Microsoft, AT&T, Salesforce.org, various tech start-ups, and even co-founding an Aerobatic Flight School in Northern CA.

Her work at Three Little Birds Agency is a culmination of these experiences as she turns her attention to serving impact organizations, businesses, and leaders through strategic Brand, Marketing & Partner Marketing, Go-To-Market, and Creative services.

Sheila Shahpari is the founder/CEO of Paritta Group Inc, a digital agency focused on delivering customer and employee engagement solutions built on Microsoft and other Open Source technologies. A software architect and Microsoft Business Applications MVP by trade, she has served in many roles within the professional services industry starting her career as a software engineer.

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Emily is technology and professional services veteran who has spent her career optimizing operations and building high performing professional services teams in service of the impact economy. Her passion is making work work for people - clients, employees, founders, and partners.

Mitch Stein is the Head of Strategy for Chariot, a charitable payments company that provides 3-click DAF giving wherever donors give online. He previously founded a nonprofit marketplace and community called Pond after leaving his role as a VP on Goldman Sachs' Technology Investment Banking team. He's a long-time board member at The LGBT Center of NYC and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Wharton School of Business at UPenn.

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Kathy Young co-founded Tri-Valley Nonprofit Alliance in 2014. Kathy is thrilled to be in the role of CEO and President for TVNPA to dedicate more time and resources in support of the nonprofits in the Tri-Valley and surrounding regions. Kathy developed a passion for the nonprofit community as TVNPA grew and she learned about the hundreds of nonprofits working in our communities every day to improve our quality of life. Kathy previously served as the Executive Director of the Hertz Fellowship Programs for the Fannie & John Hertz Foundation which provides graduate fellowships nationally in applied physical and biological sciences, engineering and mathematics. Kathy was with the Hertz Foundation for more than 13 years. She is happy to now be focused on the local communities. Prior to her career with Hertz, Kathy spent many years working in the legal field. She received her B.S. in Organizational Behavior and Leadership from the University of San Francisco.