• Billy Bicket 
• Daniel Ben-Horin
• Marnie Webb
• Marc Ross Manashil
• Claire Sale
• Anna Kuliberda
• Alicja Peszkowska
• Gayle Carpentier  

Billy Bicket

Billy Bicket is the Senior Director of the NetSquared team.

A former teacher, Marine Corps veteran, and longtime enabler of innovative communities, Billy Bicket joined TechSoup Global in 2005 to help nonprofits leverage the web’s potential for social change.  

Billy brings to TSG 20 years of experience developing programs and services in the public and private sectors. As Senior Director of the Community-Driven Innovation program (the team behind NetSquared), he leads a team of innovators working collectively toward accelerating the mission-based social-benefit projects and organizations.

In his tenure at TechSoup Global, Billy’s work has focused on launching and growing NetSquared from an annual conference convening public and private sector actors in 2006 into a diverse set of global programs which aim to surface, organize and enable the work of nonprofits, libraries and social innovators. Offline, NetSquared supports the efforts of more than 80 local groups hosting monthly face-to-face meetups in more than 25 countries around the world. Online, NetSquared showcases the work of more than 750 technology-driven social-benefit projects. Since 2007, NetSquared’s popular web-based challenges have distributed more than $450,000 in cash grants.

Currently, Billy spends his days at TSG infusing the learnings from these community-based activities into new programs and initiatives. Through the lens of community-driven innovation, Billy’s team works closely with TSG’s international network of partners, donors, and contributors to localize TSG programs with an aim to build the capacity of our global partner network and the organizations they serve. Outside of work, you can find Billy in his backyard garden or practicing the guitar. You can reach him at billyb AT billybicket.com.

Daniel Ben-Horin

Daniel Ben-Horin, Founder and co-CEO
Mr. Ben-Horin created TechSoup Global (as "CompuMentor") in 1987 by tapping volunteer resources on the WELL, one of the first online communities. Over the past two decades, he guided the TechSoup Global evolution from a small, local nonprofit to a globally respected entity with 170 employees and a budget of US$22 million. TechSoup Global now (7/09) provides technology information to individuals and organizations in more than 190 countries, has provided consulting services in more than 50 countries and, through its global network of capacity-building NGOs, manages product donations to more than 80,000 organizations in 24 countries.

In his book Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken writes that the "…hybridization of business, philanthropy technology and nonprofit activity is exemplified in the work of Daniel Ben-Horin..."

Currently, as co-CEO, Ben-Horin focuses on creating new opportunities for corporate, foundation, and nonprofit partners around the globe to optimize their social benefit impact by utlilizing TechSoup Global's channel, resources, and relationships. He speaks and writes frequently on issues related to the underserved's access to technology.

In April 2009, Ben-Horin received the 2009 "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN). Presenting the award, Vince Stehle, Program Officer for the Nonprofit Sector at the Surdna Foundation, said, "[This award is] given each year to a person who has pushed the nptech community forward. This push might be in the form of innovation, or thought leadership. In the case of Daniel Ben-Horin, the 2009 recipient and co-CEO of TechSoup Global, it's both. Everyone who works in our field owes him a debt of gratitude for revolutionizing how we get and share software and information."

In July of 2009, Ashoka named Ben-Horin as one of its Senior Fellows. He also serves on the board of the Nonprofit Finance Fund. On four occasions, he has been named by the Nonprofit Times to its annual list of the 50 most influential leaders in the U.S. nonprofit sector.

From 1980-84, Ben-Horin served as the Executive Director of Media Alliance in San Francisco, during which period he also taught journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 1969 to 1980, he was a working journalist, writing for The New York Times, The Nation, Harper's Weekly, Mother Jones, Redbook, and many other publications.

He holds a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Chicago.

Marnie Webb

Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global. Marnie has been with TechSoup Global since 2001, most recently holding the position of Vice President of Knowledge Services. To help address the nonprofit sector's systemic technology challenges, Marnie works towards optimizing TechSoup Global's popular Web resource, TechSoup, and its Knowledge Services program, which includes projects such as Healthy and Secure Computing and MaintainIT. She is one of the driving forces behind the NetSquared Initiative, which brings the social Web to nonprofits across the globe.

A sought-after speaker and writer on nonprofit technology, she understands both challenges and technological possibilities facing the sector. Marnie is one of the founding members of the Nonprofit Emerging Technology Exchange and an organizer of the NPTech tagging experiment.

In 2008, The Nonprofit Times included Marnie on its list of the 50 most influential leaders in the U.S. nonprofit sector.

Marc Ross Manashil

Marc Ross Manashil is Community Evangelist for NetSquared. His job is to understand the needs of the Net2 community and ensure that our team delivers relevant programs and services to help our members leverage technology for good. As a regular on the NetSquared blog, Marc connects the world of technology with the world of philanthropy, highlighting innovations in the field and surfacing the contributions that Net2 members make to the social benefit sector. Offline, Marc supports the growing network of Net2 Local groups worldwide, ensuring that each takes maximum advantage of the tools and resources that NetSquared and TechSoup Global have to offer. He also helps catalyze trainings, challenges and opportunities for collaboration that enable our members to maximize their impact.

Marc began his career in the human rights movement where he served as a volunteer organizer for Amnesty International. A Social Worker by training, Marc ultimately found his calling in global philanthropic work after taking several volunteer journeys overseas and serving as Program Director for a Latin American medical relief organization.

Marc subsequently co-founded and served for ten years as Executive Director of The Clarence Foundation -- an organization promoting engaged international philanthropy. In this role, Marc organized donors into giving circles where they pooled their funds and made grants to social innovators around the world.

In 2009, Marc stepped down from the foundation to pursue a Master in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School, focusing his studies on leadership development and serving as a Teaching Assistant for a course on exercising leadership from a cross-cultural and international perspective.

Marc is an avid music lover and musician. He’s played bass since the age of 13 and is a wannabe rock drummer. Marc’s greatest source of inspiration is his family -- namely his wife, Kelly, and their two daughters, Ella and Sophie.

Claire Sale

Claire Sale has a passion for using web and mobile technology to create real social impact locally and globally.

As the Community Curator for NetSquared, Claire fosters online and offline network involvement through community management and content curation. Specifically, she creates and distributes information relating to NetSquared's programs and the wider social innovation community across the global network for increased learning, sharing, and understanding. She also works closely with NetSquared Local organizers to  launch, grow, and support local community groups in over 80 cities around the world. Claire is involved with all of NetSquared's programs including NetSquared Local, Projects, Challenges, and Camps, and works closely with the wider TechSoup Global network.

Claire moved to Saudi Arabia in July of 2011 and is enjoying the expat lifestyle at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. She is originally from the US.

Anna Kuliberda

Anna Kuliberda is Global Community Builder for NetSquared. In this role, Anna informs and implements the design and management of our programmatic activities across the Central and Eastern European region and beyond. She focuses on growing participation and connections by implementing social media strategies, supporting offline events, facilitating workshops and managing the launch and development of web-based challenges.

Anna’s professional life has always been connected with NGO's. She has been engaged in many grassroots initiatives, both as a volunteer and employee. In one of her first roles, Anna served as European Voluntary Service Coordinator at Semper Avanti Association in Wroclaw. From there, Anna moved to Warsaw where she worked for the Association of Leaders of Local Civic Groups. It was her personal involvement in the Net Tuesday Local group that inspired her interest in technology and the work of NetSquared.

Anna has been involved in a variety of civil society initiatives and organizations that advocate for better access to public information and participation in public life for all citizens. She is especially interested in open public data and gov 2.0. She was co-creator of an e-learning course for watchdogs and has offered many workshops in rural communities about advocacy and access to public information.

Anna is originally from a small city in southeast Poland called Legnica. She remains closely connected to her home town, even though she has lived in Warsaw for three years now. Her favorite personal interest is to travel. She says it combines three of the things she likes most -- history, new places and the promise of an adventure! In her free time, she loves to watch movies, go dancing and read good funny books.

Gayle Samuelson Carpentier

Gayle Samuelson Carpentier, TechSoup's Director of Business Development, gets the fun of helping some of the world's largest technology firms engage with TechSoup, with a big focus on creating or expanding product donation programs to benefit social benefit organizations around the world. She continue to seek a triple win in each donation program(for technology companies, for the nonprofit sector and for TechSoup's mission of helping NPO's understand and use technology effectively so they can achieve their individual missions). Beyond CompuMentor, As a widowed mom, Gayle focuses her time on her 14 year old son, volunteering activities at school and church, plus training (or trying to anyway) her new shelter rescue dog Max.

Alicja Peszkowska

Alicja Peszkowska is a NetSquared Writer and forms a part of the Community Driven Innovation Content team. Alicja is based out of Warsaw, and supports the TechSoup Europe office as a Communications Specialist. In her role Alicja monitors social innovation as well as tech for good news and initatives, blogs about them, and engages various CDI stakeholders in a community dialogue. Alicja loves to convey socially relevant messages -- be it via words or (moving) pictures.

Alicja's educational background is in anthropology and cultural studies. She is passionate about social change in its wide and theoretical sense. Alicja loves the culturally diverse environment that she is working in; she also enjoys being close to technology -- a dynamically changing phenomenon that very much shapes how the world looks right now, and will in the future. 

Prior to her work in Net2 Alicja was involved with an International Student's organization -- AIESEC, where she lead a one year cultural diversity project. She also worked for a Transparency International partner NGO on the Colombian coast, and lived in Spain for a year. Alicja has also worked as a writer for a Polish English speaking newspaper -- The Warsaw Voice. She still writes articles and film reviews for Polish and International blogs and magazines, and is involved in many community arts initiatives of a Polish and European dimension.