Robin Chan
Robin Chan is a senior program manager for the Strategic Management Society. At SMS, she supports volunteer led research programs, interest groups, and academic conferences. She previously was the director of operations at the Illinois Medical District Guest House where she oversaw the Guest House’s mission of providing affordable accommodations to patients and their families seeking world-class healthcare in the Illinois Medical District and throughout Chicagoland. During her tenure, the Guest House has quintupled in size, serving more than 600 families annually. Robin graduated Magna Cum Laude, earning a B.A. degree in Urban and Public Affairs from the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Susan Cosmos
With Business and Computer Science degrees from Northern Illinois University and 25+ years working in Information Technology, Susan has extensive experience in software design and development, project management, and process improvement. Her interests in working with small businesses and non-profits to make a difference, combined with her professional background, align with NPSC’s desire to expand their reach to help more hospitality houses focus on helping PEOPLE, knowing that they have reliable, feature-rich software to run their house operations.
Eric Crane
Eric has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, and a Secondary Teaching Certificate in Mathematics from Northern Illinois University. Eric worked in research and development and advanced product groups exploring new data protocols and applications using wireless networks; he received three U.S. patents on data communications technology. Eric has held various consulting positions as a technical architect and software developer and spent a year teaching high school mathematics.
Eric (and MaryLou Eubanks) created Hospitality HouseKeeper as an open-source project in support of healthcare hospitality houses and founded Non-Profit Software Corporation (NPSC) to provide for ongoing development and sustainability of the project. Eric is currently the president and chief developer of NPSC.
Mike Farley
Mike Farley is a former partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and is currently servicing CIOs at Fortune 500 companies. While at PwC Mike led their Core Operations and Innovation team where he focused on health plan core operations modernization and transformation, payer / provider collaboration, and product development. Over the course of his career Mike has helped other non-profits grow revenues and reduce costs to further their mission oriented outcomes. At a healthcare non-profit, Mike led the strategy and development of a new product to address administrative complexity between health plans and providers resulting in revenues exceeding $10M annually. Mike earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Management and Technology from Syracuse University.
Cassandra Gottschalk
Cassandra grew up in Stillman Valley, Illinois. She attended Northern Illinois University, where she received her Bachelor of Art in Sociology and Philosophy in 2009. She earned her Juris Doctorate in 2012 from California Western School of Law in San Diego, California, where she served as the Co-chair of the Business Law Society’s Spring Conference in 2011. She also served as a Legal Research and Writing Honors Instructor from 2010 to 2012. She became licensed to practice in the State of California in June of 2012 and became licensed to practice in the State of Illinois in November of 2012. Cassandra is a member of the Byron Rotary Club where she serves on their fundraising committee. She is a member of the American Bar Association, Illinois Bar Association, Ogle County Bar Association, and California Bar Association.
Dan Schewe
Dan has a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan and a M.Ed. from Eastern Michigan University. After a career that included teaching, employee-benefits consulting, and investing in startup companies, Dan retired to DeKalb, Illinois, with his wife Kathy to be close to family. Dan is active in the DeKalb non-profit community, serving on the boards of Non-Profit Software Corporation, Friends of JAMS (Jane Adeny Memorial School for girls in Kenya), and the historic Egyptian Theatre. As an Evans Scholar alumnus, he also serves as the House Chairman for the Northern Illinois University Evans Scholarship House.
“I began serving on non-profit boards many years ago in Houston, Texas. When we moved to DeKalb, Illinois, I was pleased to find a very vibrant non-profit community. I believe that Non-Profit Software Corporation performs a valuable service to both of its constituencies—it helps healthcare hospitality houses perform the vital mission of helping people with the challenges of dealing with extended hospital stays, and it assists the broader non-profit community in DeKalb County by making its software available to help these non-profits become better organized so they can fulfill their missions more effectively.”