Executive Management
Lisa Rau is the Chief Executive Officer. In addition to management of Confluence engagements and business development responsibilities, her direct work includes consulting in the use of software systems to achieve mission; information technology planning; the development of concepts and visions for the strategic use of technology within nonprofits from a holistic, organizational perspective; and planning specific technology projects from upgrading computers to creating complex, distributed information systems. You may even get Lisa when calling our Help Desk!
Lisa is active in the technology-for-nonprofits movement, and is a frequent invited speaker at conferences on nonprofits and technology across the country. She is on the faculty of the Center for Nonprofit Advancement's Learning and Leadership Institute. See our News Section for upcoming and recent presentations.
From 1993-2001, Lisa was a senior executive at commercial information technology (IT) services firms where she had P&L responsibility for IT services contracts of over $35M in annual revenue. A previous Visiting Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania's Computer Science Department, she has been a VP and member of the Board of Directors of the YWCA of the National Capital Area from 2002-2004, and from 2009 - present. She has a BS, MS from the University of California, Berkeley in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Exeter.
Jeff Sullivan is the President and Chief Operating Officer. Jeff's professional background includes over a dozen years as an executive at information technology services firms.
Jeff has twenty years in the information technology industry, with special expertise in the organizational issues associated with program creation and growth.
Prior to founding Confluence, Jeff was a Deputy Director at NCI Information Systems where he managed the execution and growth of a portfolio of over thirty million dollars of information technology services projects for the public sector. He also spent eight years at SRA International, managing the growth and operations of many public sector projects, most notably a $20M set of contracts with the National Institutes of Health.
Jeff received a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, magna cum laude from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Our people are technical professionals: trained, educated and experienced. But are also immersed in the nonprofit sector. We won't talk down to you -- we talk with you.