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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 / Molly Lavik

Annie Van Bebber
Founder/Editor In Chief

Annie Van Bebber, Founder of Fundraisers.com and known as the Digital Maven is a recognized entrepreneur and authority on New Media and the Internet. She has been dedicated to a variety of social causes for 35 years and has raised millions of dollars for charity. 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.

Van Bebber is well-known for creating revenue generating and brand building strategies as well as for masterminding award-winning websites and properties. Ms. Van Bebber was a founding partner of Attitude Network, where she led its HappyPuppy.com games site to highly-acclaimed, record-Internet-success status and a partner in the award-winning StarChefs.com, the premier culinary forum featuring celebrity chefs and recipes from around the world.

Van Bebber's keen insights also launched her success as an integral member of the programming and editorial team which set the course for the music industry. Her trail-blazing foray into music and broadcasting began at Drake-Chenault, a major radio syndication house, as National Music Director. There, she produced such syndicated legacies as The Motown Story and The History of Rock 'n Roll. Van Bebber helped launch Radio & Records, a major trade publication for the music and radio industry. While at Radio & Records she also produced The Wolfman Jack Show.

As founder of the production company Holiday Videos, Van Bebber produced travel films for the Princess Cruise Line. She also launched and was responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of Inside 12x12, Computer Pak West and Priority Pak, leading fulfillment houses for the recording, entertainment and advertising industries. Van Bebber was the second woman in fifty years to be elected to the Board of Directors by the members of the Delta Nu Alpha Transportation Fraternity, and was subsequently selected as Chairman for the State of California for National Transportation Week.

As a proven visionary, her expert advice has been sought by Fortune 500 companies. Her industry knowledge has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, Home Office Computing, Metro West Daily News, The Arizona Republic, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle and the LA Business Journal. She has been honored as a guest speaker at Industry events and by the country's most distinguished universities. Annie currently speaks at Pepperdine University on a variety of subjects. She has also been the recipient of numerous achievement awards.

Van Bebber has been dedicated to a variety of social causes for more than 34 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, KidsCharities.org, ASIFA and Art Quotient. She has also supported the National Childhood Cancer Foundation, RADD (Recording Artist Against Drunk Driving), AMFAR, March of Dimes and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

She is an active member in the Technology Council of Southern California, World Poker Association, Social Enterprise Alliance and Woman in Technology International. She is also the 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.

Molly Lavik
Advisory Board Member

Molly Lavik is the founder of Mentorography, Inc. and a practitioner faculty of Marketing for Pepperdine UniversityÕs Graziadio School of Business and Management. Lavik has dedicated her career toward helping others find their true potential and purpose. She does this through her consulting, company and coaching in the classroom. Lavik began on this career path by helping corporations find their true potential and purpose by initiating corporate social responsibility programs and Ecotourism initiatives in the hospitality industry.

She was also a pioneer of the economic development of the digital media industry which led to her work with helping early-stage entrepreneurs make meaning with their startup enterprises. Most recently Lavik founded Mentorography, Inc. where she produces and distributes digital diaries which are first-hand accounts of the lessons learned from socially responsible entrepreneurs. A major purpose of Mentorography, Inc. is to inspire and educate others to become socially responsible business leaders by providing a type of virtual mentoring experience.

Lavik resides in Redondo Beach with her husband Hans. (Photo by: Jody Frank)

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