Joshua LaBorde is passionate about applying his diverse operational experience and technical skills at mission-driven organizations. While serving the philanthropy field for nearly a decade, he has seen firsthand the power and potential of people coming together and contributing to delivering on life-impacting—and often life-changing—missions. Getting to work with people who care so much about making a difference inspires him and his work.

Joshua brings over 20 years of experience in operations, information, and technology. At BWF, he partners with clients on strategically deploying best practices, process optimization, leveraging data and technology, and maximizing the return on their systems and operations investments.

Lauren Batterby was born and raised in Manchester, England. She is the CEO and founder of Life Event Staffing, providing specialized auction staff for fundraising and corporate events across North America, serving both the United States and Canada. With over 10 years of industry experience, Lauren’s expertise lies in fundraising events and silent auction technology. LIFE Event Staffing was established in 2021, with a small roster of 40 staff and 1 client, under Lauren’s leadership Life Event Staffing has grown to 650 staff, managing 7 silent auctions platforms, and organizing over 850 successful auction events in 2022. Another big addition to the team in 2022 was sweet baby Lucy, now 13-months old. Laurens daughter.

A word from Lauren: “I seek to leverage my career in fundraising by building relationships to strengthen my knowledge while learning from others. I believe that positive actions bring positive outcomes and I lead my company with empathy.”

Katelyn is a nonprofit email consultant who is passionate about helping good causes harness email to inspire generosity. After working with a variety of leading nonprofits and managing multi-million dollar digital fundraising campaigns, Katelyn fell in love with email marketing and it’s power to raise funds and increase ROI. Katelyn’s launched her marketing consultancy KB digital in 2018, to spend more time with her family. In her five years of business ownership, she’s worked with a variety of well-known nonprofit clients like National Geographic, The Trevor Project, UNHCR, The Cancer Research Institute, and The National Breast Cancer Foundation. Katelyn has a B.A. in Communication from The University of Maryland, a Digital Marketing Certificate from Georgetown University, and is certified in advanced Google Analytics, AdWords, and inbound marketing from HubSpot Academy. You can learn more about Katelyn at katelynbaughan.com.

Jenn has created technology solutions in the public and nonprofit sector for over 25 years. She is the founder of Deep Why design, a firm that helps nonprofits who use – or want to use – Salesforce for far more than fundraising.

Jenn’s areas of expertise are in the design and management of information systems. She works extensively in designing methods for reducing manual data entry within and between organizations as well as establishing patterns for trusted and trustworthy data.

Jenn holds an MBA in Nonprofit Management from the Heller School, Brandeis and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alabama.

Nathan Firer is the founder/CEO of a video-software company called Megilla that is changing the way companies proactively lead the conversation with customers and audiences. Nathan is a former attorney turned writer/producer in TV/Digital Media. He lead storytelling sessions at senior living communities and has always been dedicated to asking questions & storytelling. His company helps their clients (nonprofits, live events & festivals, museums, hospitality, brands & more) collect vital videos (user-generated content/UGC) that marketing teams use for data, driving revenue and brand storytelling on social platforms. Megilla is built to help reduce bandwidth for marketing teams and put time back in their day.