Profiles article index >> GIVINGCAPITAL NAMES GRETCHEN NICKEL PRESIDENT GivingCapital, a Philadelphia-based e-services company that enables charities to collect and process funds online, has promoted Gretchen Nickel to president from chief financial officer. "With a highly successful first round of funding and the rapid rise in the number of nonprofits using our technology, GivingCapital is in a strong position," says Nickel, who has more than 14 years of experience in domestic and international financial, accounting, and administrative management with Fortune 500 companies. "My job is to continue GivingCapital's expansion and to oversee more partnering with financial service companies to offer our innovative donor- advised fund." GivingCapital has introduced the first independent, online donor-advised fund (DAF). GivingCapital's DAF, an online foundation-style account used for charitable giving, will give donors an online account management system and a choice of financial service companies. Nickel's first professional assignments were with Citibank nationally and internationally, culminating in her designation as vice president and financial controller for the Asia/Pacific and Central/South America Regions of the Financial Institutions Group. Nickel then served as CFO of the Outsourced Services Division of Fiserv. For six years, she was an independent consultant specializing in mergers and acquisitions and chief financial officer services. Before joining GivingCapital, Nickel was CFO at Stockpower, Inc., a San Francisco-based e-commerce firm that enables direct stock purchasing over the Web. Nickel succeeds Rich Masterson, co-founder of US Interactive, who is now chairman of GivingCapital's board of directors. GivingCapital provides advanced Internet applications that allow nonprofit organizations to receive and process online donations through their Web sites and manage online fundraising. More than 90 charities from across the country, including The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, are using GivingCapital's patent pending technology. Profiles article index >> News I Health I Wellness I Exercise I Profiles I Business I Links I Women ROCK! Product Review I To the Point I Contact I Home Created by: Art Street Design Studio. © Concerning Women Communications, Inc. all rights reserved.