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Our Partners
ardentCause is dedicated to serving the needs of the non-profit community, whose hallmark is collaboration among innovative, creative, dedicated and giving people -- cooperating to achieve goals and serve their overarching missions.
We thrive on working with innovative and competent partners to achieve short-term and long-term goals.
Those partners currently include:
Our Board of Advisors
Pat Amaranth
Over 25 years in the IT industry, currently with HP; formerly VP of Information Technology Infrastructure and applications at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
Terry Cross, Windward Associates
Terry Cross is a past member of the Board of Directors of Great Lakes Angels and a founding member of The Michigan Venture Capital Association.
His current board memberships include: RealKidz; PureEntropy as Chairman; MIST Innovations as Chairman; and Monarch Antenna, a Delphi Corp. spinoff. Cross serves as the first Executive in Residence for Entrepreneurship at the School of Business Administration at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he administers the prestigious Adams Entrepreneurial Fellowship and received the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award. Terry is on the Board of EISEM at Automation Alley and works closely with the entrepreneurial programs at TechTown in Detroit.
Cross was a co-founder of Sonoma Photonics, recently sold to Lockheed-Martin. He has led or participated in 46 Angel investments since 1962. He was a founding investor in three startups from MIT's tech transfer department and served on MIT's Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity. In September 2007, he was named to the Task Force for a World Financial Center by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, one of Korea's most prestigious institutions. He was employed by Kidder, Peabody in various financial services and investment banking activities in Detroit, New York and San Francisco until his retirement in 1998.
> click here < to listen to a recent WWJ Radio interview with Terry Cross.
Cindy Warner
Over 26 years years experience as a management consultant and operational executive; currently with Alix Partners as a Managing Director working with clients in turnaround situations.
Formerly a Senior Vice President of Global Technology Services for Salesforce.com, and a partner at Accenture, where she specialized in global SAP CRM solutions. She has consulted to hundreds of Fortune 1000 and entrepreneurial ventures, alike.
Cindy's nonprofit experience includes:
Schools for Humanity, Founding Member
Special Olympics, Director of Operations – Summer Games
Salesforce.com Foundation, Previous Board Advisor
Sweet Dreamzz, Board Member
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