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Jude has more than 25 years of experience in technology, leadership, and entrepreneurship in the private sector and in the world of social change. A seasoned organizational leader in social innovation, he has launched more than 100 consumer and enterprise products.

Before joining VolunteerMatch, Jude was responsible for the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and funding within the Skoll community. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he led his team to quadruple grantmaking in one year in 2020, sustain those high levels in 2021, and redesign and launch their flagship Award program.

His team created a new COVID Emergency Fund in partnership with the organizations they serve: rapidly delivering $19M in emergency grants in 2020 and $10M in 2021. During his eight years at the Foundation, he represented Skoll across more than a dozen countries from the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya to Christ Church College in Oxford, England.

Jude's private sector background includes Amazon.com, where he was responsible for product management of the photos experience on the Amazon Fire, Amazon Drive, and Checkout by Amazon. Prior to joining Amazon.com, he spent the majority of his high-tech career in startups of 5 to 150 people, including helping to start Trusera, a place on the web for people to share their personal medical experiences. At Trusera, he helped the CEO raise more than $3.2 million in angel investments and built the team that designed the original product from scratch. As a technology analyst at Gartner, he discovered and later joined Aventail, an early pioneer in the internet security space, eventually sold to Dell Inc.