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Allan Pressel
Charity Founders
Allan@charityfinders.com

Allan is CEO and founder of Charity Finders and was a co-founder of i-Cube, which had a highly successful IPO in June, 1998, and was later acquired by Razorfish.

Prior to founding i-Cube, Allan was a technology strategy consultant at Arthur Anderson and First Consulting Group. Allan holds an M.B.A from The Anderson School at UCLA, and a B.A. from Brandeis University, and attended the London School of Economics and London Business School. Allan has been involved with various nonprofit organizations, including helping to start the annual Challenge For Charity event among leading west coast business schools, a 17-year involvement with the International Visitors Center of Los Angeles, and 3 years as the president of Century City Toastmasters. Allan has conducted numerous public speaking engagements, including presentations on Internet and IT Strategy to thousands of Fortune 500 senior executives at several seminars at Cambridge Executive Enterprises, Hewlett-Packard, and various industry conferences.

Allan currently focuses exclusively on presentations to nonprofit organizations and groups, most often on Internet Strategy for Nonprofits. This includes recent speaking engagements at the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Association of Healthcare Philanthropy, Head Start (national conference), Organization of Nonprofit Executives, and California Association of Nonprofit (annual conference). Allan has also done presentations for the management and boards of hundreds of individual nonprofits, with an emphasis on helping them utilize the Internet strategically to help further their missions.

Allan facilitates the following CNL courses:

• e-Philanthropy
• Website Design
• Maximizing Fundraising through Website, e-Marketing
• Effective Internet Strategy