7.2. The Company

eTapestry's four cofounders had accumulated more than 30 years of experience developing solutions for the nonprofit sector. CEO Jay Love and COO Steve Rusche have each spent 15 years managing the operations of nonprofits, while CTO John Moore and Scott Ganyo, the vice president of research and application architecture, each have more than a dozen years with system design, database management, and programming. Prior to cofounding eTapestry, Moore and Ganyo had extensive object-oriented development experience working with C++ and SmallTalk. They began working with the Java language even before its 1995 public release.

The idea that eventually became eTapestry originated in the mid 1990s while the founders were principals of Master ...

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