Sponsor of the Career Conference

Christiana Foglio is all about impact investing – finding creative ways to merge public funding and private capital to invest in making communities better. Her motto is to not only do well, but do good. An industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience in the private and public sectors, Ms. Foglio specializes in building senior and multi-family housing that reflects each community’s vision, needs, and character. She founded Community Investment Strategies in 1994, and as a successful entrepreneur, she’s grown her company’s diverse portfolio to include more than 3,200 apartment rental units valued at over $600 million. 

A special thank you to Christiana Foglio DC’84 for her generous contributions to Douglass and the BOLD Center.
 

Keynote Speaker

Allyson Fryhoff is Managing Director of AWS (Amazon Web Services) Nonprofit Business. Allyson leads the team inspiring nonprofit organizations to accelerate their digital transformation, mission outcomes and positive impact in the world through cloud technology. In addition to her extensive technology background, Allyson also brings social sector experience as a former teacher and working with individuals with disabilities. Previously, Ms. Fryhoff held executive leadership positions with Salesforce.org as SVP of Strategic Engagement & Innovation and CRO for Nonprofit & Education, and with Salesforce as the leader of the platform go-to-market, including Force.com, Heroku, Communities and IoT, and helped to grow that business into a billion dollar cloud. Prior to Salesforce, Ms. Fryhoff held sales and management positions at Oracle, Digital Equipment Corporation and Control Data Corp. Allyson spent 16 years at Oracle in a variety of product and sales leadership roles. Among her many accomplishments, Allyson led the launch of Exadata, Oracle’s next generation engineered system. Ms. Fryhoff has more than 25 years experience in the high tech industry and previously was responsible for business development, strategic partnerships, and strategic implementation services for pervasive computing & emerging products.