Lindauer Recruits CEO for Tech Goes Home
December 10, 2024 – Lindauer has been retained by Tech Goes Home (TGH) in Boston, MA, to lead in its search for a new CEO. Bob Giannino, Taylor Beard, and Elsa Gomes Bondlow are leading the assignment. As it approaches its 25th anniversary, Tech Goes Home is looking for a CEO who will build on the organization’s progress in advancing digital equity while expanding its impact across Massachusetts and the nation. Embodying the organization’s foundational principles of access and equity, the CEO will be instrumental in providing underserved families, students, and job seekers with the tools, skills, and support they need to succeed in today’s tech-driven world.
This role offers the unique opportunity to shape a forward-thinking strategy that addresses one of the most critical social issues of our time: digital equity. Lindauer explains that the CEO will work closely with a talented team, engaged board, a committed cadre of philanthropic investors, and a growing number of community partners to scale. TGH’s programs, enhance fundraising efforts, and deepen its transformative work across diverse communities nationwide. The firm notes that this is a chance to make a profound difference, championing technology as a pathway to economic empowerment, educational attainment, and a lifetime of opportunity for all.
Lindauer is seeking candidates with a demonstrated familiarity with the communities Tech Goes Home serves and a magnetic passion for the organization’s mission and programs. Those applying must have an unequivocal commitment to Tech Goes Home’s principles and practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion. They should have previous substantial chief executive experience as well as past experience leading a high-growth enterprise (non-profit or private sector). Demonstrated expertise with geographic expansion is strongly preferred as well as a proven track record of successfully building organizational culture that inspires and motivates teams to set and achieve ambitious goals and objectives. Significant fundraising experience with a track record of securing major gifts, building mutually beneficial corporate and foundation relationships, and securing public sector grants and contracts is also desired.
Tech Goes Home is dedicated to advancing digital equity. Its mission is to close the digital divide. Working in partnership with schools, libraries, and other trusted community organizations, it brings computers, internet, and training to those without so that students can do homework, adults can find jobs and manage finances, older adults can connect with loved ones, and all can lead healthy lives.
Lindauer serves higher and secondary education, hospitals, academic research centers, think tanks, research facilities, and foundations, as well as advocacy, public service, social justice and other mission-driven non-profits. The firm has led searches for the Boston YMCA, Center for Applied Special Technology, Healthy Minds Innovations/Center for Healthy Minds, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Cockrell School of Engineering, among others.
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Deb Taft, chief executive officer, leads Lindauer with over 25 years of executive and senior-level experience across the non-profit sector, from education to healthcare/academic medicine to the youth service and voluntary sectors. Her expertise includes governance, strategic planning, fundraising, program and staff management, strategic marketing, analytics, and constituent engagement, as well as talent recruitment, retention, and development.
Mr. Giannino is senior vice president and co-leader of the firm’s advocacy, policy, and social enterprise practice. With decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, he has had a transformational impact in advancing opportunity, access, and equity. Mr. Giannino joined Lindauer in July 2024 from the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, where he has provided the leadership and strategic direction that drives the organization toward creating greater opportunity, access, and equity for all in Eastern Massachusetts. “Bob has made a transformative difference at the highest levels of non-profit leadership by identifying opportunities for impact, making bold plans, and bringing people together to find common cause for the common good,” said Ms. Taft.
Ms. Beard, consultant, brings to Lindauer and its clients several years of philanthropic consulting and project management experience in the non-profit sector. Throughout her career, she has partnered with a range of clients including American University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Chicago Urban League, Colgate University, Da Vinci Science Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Englewood Health Foundation, Folger Shakespeare Library, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Germantown Friends School, Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Macalester College, Milwaukee Art Museum, Louisiana State University Athletics, National Cathedral School, Oregon Health and Science University Foundation, Pennsylvania State University Athletics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Minnesota Foundation, University of New Mexico Foundation, University of the Arctic, Trinity College, and Upper Canada College.
Ms. Gomes Bondlow, senior consultant, brings to Lindauer and its clients over 20 years of experience, as a connector, relationship builder, social justice activist, and social change strategist. In 2020, she co-founded the trust-based, woman of color-led, Social Equity Access Fund, which focused on providing basic needs while addressing the social determinants of health. Ms. Gomes Bondlow currently serves as a board member and co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Women in Development of Greater Boston.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
