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I am very pleased to welcome Madhu Anand as the new Director of the TechSoup Global Network!

Madhu has extensive global experience in a variety of leadership positions in financial management and operational program management in corporations and non-profit organizations. Her most recent position was as Solutions Program Manager in Cisco's Corporate Quality organization where she designed and built a program to address customer quality issues.  Before joining Cisco in 1996, she worked for 8 years at Tandem Computers.  Madhu spent 6 months as a Cisco Leadership Fellow at Mercy Corps’ Financial Services Group in Kyrgyztan.   She led the evaluation, acquisition and deployment of software and network infrastructure for Mercy Corps’ rural women’s group micro-lending program.  From 2003 to 2005 she served as NetHope’s Finance Director.  Madhu is a Board member at Anudip Foundation.  From 2008 to 2009 she also served on the Board of UnityCare Group.  She received her Masters degree in Economics from University of Lucknow in India and an MBA from San Jose State University with focus on Finance.  In addition to the U.S., she has worked in India, Brussels, Canada, the UK and Kyrgyzstan.  Outside of work, Madhu enjoys theater, outdoor activities, and (obviously) travel!

Please join me in welcoming Madhu to TechSoup Global!

Some of you have noticed a new TechSoup job posting recently:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/npo/1179003223.html

Dear Partners,

Many of you know that we began our organization as Compumentor and provided services under that name for the first 18 of our 21 years. Over the last three years, as TechSoup increased in name recognition, reach and scope of services and as CompuMentor stopped local consulting, we have dealt with an increasing number of questions – internal and external – about who we are. Are we TechSoup? Are we CompuMentor? How do we refer to ourselves in contracts, in partnerships, with our global network? We’ve talked internally and externally about whether or not we should change our name, our brand identity and, if so, how we should manage that.

We are pleased to announce the expansion of the TechSoup Global Network into two new countries!

A view of Johannesburg:

Oct. 30-Nov. 12, 2007

The first part of my trip took me to Nairobi, Kenya for a Microsoft sponsored NGO roundtable. After receiving my visa at the airport, I was immediately given a visual reminder that large parts of Africa still run on paper.