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Natasha Deganello Giraudie (CEO, Founder) Natasha is CEO and Founder of Papilia, which combines the proven principles of major-donor fundraising with a new generation of personalization technology to help nonprofit clients attract new supporters and better engage their existing ones. Natasha founded Papilia with a cross-discipline background in software, communications, and philanthropy. She was previously Chief Content Officer for LivePix (later MGI Software) which built more than a dozen enterprise and consumer imaging and publishing solutions for companies such as Kodak, Fuji, Epson and Warner Brothers. Natasha was in charge of both business development and content creation for the products. Her business background is paralleled by 15 years as an active philanthropy volunteer in childrens' organizations around the world. Natasha has recently spoken at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the Net Impact Conference at Columbia University, the Annual Conference of the Yale Goldman Sachs Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, UC Berkeley Haas Business School and the London Business School. She holds a Masters in Communications from Stanford University and was the recipient of the Donald Kennedy Public Service Fellowship. Stephane Giraudie Stephane is the Chief Product Officer and Founder of Papilia, where he has been responsible for designing fundraising and communications solutions that help nonprofit clients attract new supporters and better engage their existing ones. Stephane has spent his entire career developing long-range technology product strategies, building the teams to support them, and successfully taken offerings to market. Stephane has defined, launched and managed more than a dozen consumer products for MGI Software and for Qualys. Stephane holds a Bachelor in Economics from the University of Clermont-Ferrand, an MBA from the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Toulouse, and has studied entrepreneurial finance and management at the Stanford University executive program. Kay Sprinkel Grace CFRE, is a San Francisco-based organizational consultant working with nonprofit organizations in strategic planning, case and board development, staff development, and other issues related to leadership of the fund raising process. Prior to starting her own firm in 1987, she was a staff development officer for nearly a decade. She has been faculty member of the The Fund Raising School at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy since 1980. Her current major contract is as principal external consultant to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Major Giving Initiative. 115 public television licensees will participate in the program, from 2004 to 2006. Other recent clients include: Sesame Workshop; California Academy of Sciences; University of Colorado Foundation; The San Francisco Foundation; and Kaiser Institute, Colorado. Her B.A. in Communications-Journalism and M.A. in Education are from Stanford University, where she served two years (1992-94) as the first woman Volunteer Chair of the Stanford Fund. A frequent speaker at major fundraising conferences and events, she is also the author of 5 books including Beyond Fund Raising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment and High Impact Philanthropy: How Donors, Boards, and Nonprofit Organizations Can Transform Communities. She lives in San Francisco and is passionate about her children and grandchildren, philanthropy, writing, travel and her photography. Ariel Poler has been involved with a number of successful Internet start-ups. He was the founder and CEO of IPRO, the first company to measure and audit web traffic. Ariel was founder and CEO of Topica, a leading provider of email publishing and lead management solutions. Ariel was founding board member of Kana Software, a pioneering provider of CRM solutions [NASDAQ: KANA]; he was founding Chairman of LinkExchange (now Microsoft's bCentral service for small business marketing); and he was a board member of Silicon Investor (now part of InfoSpace). As CEO of TextMarks, Ariel is enabling the "long tail" of SMS publishing. Ariel currently serves on the board of directors of Bills.com, a provider of consumer debt resolution and lead generation services, and StumbleUpon, a fast growing content discovery network. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. Bill Unger (Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund) has been in the venture capital industry for over 20 years. His focus has been on enterprise software and companies related to the semiconductor industry. He is currently on the boards of Papilia, Lightspeed Semiconductor, and Bandspeed, and is on the advisory boards of several other privately held companies. Past investments include Sandisk (SNDK), Silicon Architects (acquired by Synopsys (SNPS)), Calico Commerce (CLIC), Newport Communications (acquired by Broadcom (BRCM)), Simplex Solutions (acquired by Cadence (CDN)), Excess Bandwidth Corporation (acquired by Virata (VRTA)), and Verplex Design Systems (acquired by Cadence (CDN)). Prior to joining Mayfield in 1983, Bill was in the executive search business. He founded Positek, which successfully completed over 300 searches for the high technology industry. Bill has always dedicated time to philanthropic activities. He is currently Board Member of CARE USA and The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology; and on the Advisory Boards of the Dean of Engineering of The University of California at Berkeley, YouthNoise, Environmental Entrepreneurs, the Global Philanthropy Forum, and the Entrepreneurs Foundation. When not at work he spends time with his wife Terri and son, Max, skiing, scuba diving, hiking or golfing.