Sunday, December 20, 2009

Dave McClure and Dave Richards Join Unitus Board of Directors

The two new axle associates will advice Unitus allay all-around poverty.

Redmond, WA -- Unitus, a arch microfinance organization, appear today that Dave McClure and Dave Richards, two chief business admiral committed to acclamation the botheration of all-around poverty, abutting the Unitus Board of Directors.

Unitus is a all-around microfinance accelerator which identifies and ally with the highest-potential microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the world. By accouterment basic abetment and consulting services, Unitus grows its MFI ally so that they can serve exponentially added poor clients. Currently Unitus has seven MFI ally confined added than 540,000 audience in India, Kenya and Mexico.

The Unitus Board of Directors is comprised of awful accomplished, business-minded professionals with ability in finance, adventure basic and management. They accord their time, assets and ability to abutment the Unitus mission of abbreviating all-around abjection by accretion acceptance to microfinance. In accession to arena a key role in selecting Unitus’s new MFI partners, Board associates ensure Unitus’s centralized ability and effectiveness.

“Dave McClure and Dave Richards are a absurd accession to the Unitus Board of Directors,” said Geoff Davis, Unitus admiral and CEO. “They allotment our appearance that accretion acceptance to microfinance is one of the best means to allay abjection worldwide. Moreover, their innovative, high-growth technology industry acquaintance gives them a agog compassionate of the challenges adverse our MFI partners.”

Dave McClure has formed in the high-tech industry for over fifteen years. After admission from Johns Hopkins University in 1988, Dave was a programmer and database adviser with several Silicon Valley companies, including Intel and Microsoft. In 1994, Dave started Aslan Computing, an Internet and e-commerce consulting firm, which was after acquired by Servinet / Panurgy in 1998. Since 1999 he has been an adviser to and broker in several startups including Feedster, HealthUnity, WellFund, and SimplyHired.

From 2001 to 2004, Dave was administrator of business at PayPal, a analysis of eBay, area he created and managed the PayPal Developer Network program. In 2005 Dave abutting SimplyHired.com as administrator of marketing, and is now VP of evangelism. SimplyHired.com (www.SimplyHired.com) is a "vertical search" startup which runs the world's better seek engine for jobs. SimplyHired was called by Time Magazine as one of the Top 50 Coolest Web sites for 2005. Dave is aswell architect and co-chair for the SDForum Search SIG (www.searchsig.wordpress.com), a technology user accumulation accoutrement arising capacity in the internet seek industry.

Dave is an agog accepter in microfinance as a agency of abbreviation all-around abjection and is actively affianced in announcement microfinance acquaintance and captivation through the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network (www.svmn.wordpress.com). He is aswell a affiliate of the Full Circle Fund, a San Francisco-based non-profit formed by San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs and business leaders to abode bounded association issues in affordable housing, education, and technology access.

Dave Richards is high-tech business baton and amorous advance for a amount of nonprofit organizations. On the business front, Dave has led abounding high-performance technology and business teams including his a lot of contempo role as a business assemblage controlling with RealNetworks. Prior to Real, Dave captivated administration positions with Sybase and Symantec, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently, Dave is a arch with Fast Forward Consulting Services (www.ff-cs.com), accouterment administration consulting casework to high-tech companies.

On the nonprofit front, Dave serves as a axle affiliate with Mutual Interest, which provides aegis deposits to abandoned families affective into abiding housing; Off The Map (co-founder and administrator -- www.off-the-map.org); and Vineyard Community Church -- a faith-based alignment which provides amusing casework to bounded low-income families.

Dave is actual absorbed in the ability of economics to breach cycles of abjection with accurate achievement for well-implemented microcredit systems. He has a available of business amount from the University of British Columbia with a above in accounts and accessory in computer science.

To apprentice added about the Unitus Board of Directors, amuse visit: www.unitus.com/board

About Unitus (www.unitus.com):
Unitus is a all-around microfinance accelerator that acts as a amusing adventure basic broker for the microfinance industry. Unitus identifies the highest-potential microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries and helps advanced their advance through basic investments and capacity-building consulting, appropriately allotment them to advice exponentially added poor humans worldwide. In accomplishing so, Unitus aims to authenticate that MFIs can be run as profitable, large-scale, poverty-focused businesses with links to bounded basic markets. As of December 2005, Unitus had seven MFI ally common confined added than 540,000 poor clients. Based in Redmond, Wash., USA, and with an appointment in Bangalore, India, Unitus relies on avant-garde banking instruments and the banking assets of agreeing individuals and foundations to accomplish its mission. Unitus accustomed the 2006 Fast Company / Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award (www.fastcompany.com/social/2006) for demography an innovative, entrepreneurial, business-minded access to abating all-around poverty. For added advice about Unitus, amuse visit: www.unitus.com

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