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The most valuable asset of any organization is the group of people who work together to make the goals of the organization a reality. We're proud of the people who make FundRaisers.com possible.

Annie Van Bebber

Stuart Friedman / Michael Terpin / Claudette Runyan

Annie Van Bebber
Founder/Editor In Chief

Annie Van Bebber is a recognized entrepreneur and authority on New Media and the Internet. Annie has the intuitive gift of truly knowing the consumer and has been at the forefront of media trends that have become a part of our culture.

Fundraisers.com is the result of Van Bebber's dedication to a variety of social causes for more than 28 years, over the course of which she has literally raised millions of dollars for charity. A former member of the PTA, PTO and the Education Technology Planning Team, she continues to be devoted to a number of causes and charities including the T. J. Martell Foundation, the Neil Bogart Memorial Fund and KidsCharities.org. She has also supported the National Childhood Cancer Foundation, RADD (Recording Artist Against Drunk Driving), AMFAR, March of Dimes and the Leukemia Society of America.

Van Bebber is well-known for creating revenue generating and brand building strategies as well as for masterminding award-winning websites and properties. As a founding partner of Attitude Network, she led its HappyPuppy.com games site to highly-acclaimed, record-Internet-success status and was a partner in the award-winning StarChefs.com, the premier culinary forum featuring celebrity chefs and recipes from around the world. She is an active member in the Association of Internet Professionals, Southern California Software Council and Woman in Technology International. Van Bebber currently serves on the Advisory Board of internetwire.com and is a former Chairman of the Board of the Computer Game Developers Association.

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Stuart Friedman
Advisory Board Member

Stuart Friedman, has a business career spanning four decades. He has principally been involved in developing companies related to financing and delivery of health care in the US and several developing countries. Starting in 1985, Mr Friedman became a Founder and President of Birch & Davis Health Management Corporation until its acquisition by Affiliated Computer Services. Mr Friedman is an alumnus of the University of Southern California, where he received degrees as a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and as a Master of Business Administration.

Mr. Friedman has been involved in a number of not-for-profit and charitable institutions. He was the Founder and President (1972-1986) of the Mensa Education and Research Foundation and is currently a Board member of the Lautenberg Research Center for tumor and general immunology. He was appointed in 1988 as an industrial expert to the NATO Civil Emergency Planning Directorate, a position he still holds.

Michael Terpin
Advisory Board Member

Michael Terpin Michael Terpin is CEO of Terpin Communications Group, a leading national public relations firm focused on high technology, consumer/healthcare products, media/finance companies and trade shows/associations. The Firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in San Francisco and New York. Terpin has represented America Online, BIOPHEX and INTERPHEX (Reed Expos), Cablevision, EarthLink, Fujitsu, Knight Ridder, Memorex, the Motley Fool, NATPE, Red Herring, RollingStone.com, Silicon Graphics, TEAC and Wine.com. It has also represented more than two dozen associations, including the Interactive Television Alliance and VC Task Force.

Terpin also serves as chairman of Market Wire, the preferred press release distribution system of the NASDAQ Stock Market. Market Wire was formed in April 2003, through a strategic partnership between NASDAQ and Internet Wire, the nation's leading Internet-based company newswire, which Terpin founded in 1999. Market Wire has more than 3,000 clients, including Bayer, General Mills, IBM, Merck, Pfizer, Wal-Mart and more than 100 NASDAQ-listed companies. Terpin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the SUNYork/Buffalo and BA degrees in Newspaper Journalism and English Literature from Syracuse University. He is an advisor to Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and is on the board of the Center for Digital Literacy.

Claudette Runyan
Advisory Board Member

Claudette Runyan worked side by side for 13 years with her husband, internationally known graphic designer Robert Miles Runyan, whose award winning graphic design firm was famous for the 1984 Olympic Stars in Motion logo. The design firm had numerous Fortune 500 clients where she was involved in developing new marketing concepts and strategies and was integral in the development of corporate communication collateral and sales presentations. Interacting with CEO's, she helped to increase sales by implementing corporate identity/brand systems. She still handles the licensing of art and intellectual property for her late husband Robert Miles Runyan and other artists.

Ms. Runyan's creative talents led her to create and produce a ten-week cable television program on self-awareness techniques, along with a self-improvement assessment product. This led her to a radio show as a motivational speaker on visionary and forward thinking. During her 17 year career in aerospace, Claudette's major contribution was the creation and implementation of Quality Verification policies and procedures that are still in effect today. Claudette's involvement in the community ranges in all areas.

She has been a fundraiser and coordinator and member for Rotary International, Neurological Science Institute at Oregon State Hospital University, Cancer Care Resources, Cancer Walk for Tuality Hospital, Phame Academy for Disabled and Handicapped Children and for Ninos Incapcitados - Disabled Children and Hospital for the Deaf Children in Mexico.

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