Upic University

 Contributed by: Winston Faircloth 

017 UpicU: Upic 10th/Brian Gallagher

Spring 2011 marks the 10^th anniversary of the formation of Upic Solutions as a stand-alone 501 c 3 non-profit technology organization owned and managed by United Ways.  Over the next several podcast episodes, we will be interviewing some of the founding members of the original organization.  

In today’s episode, we will interview Brian Gallagher, President and CEO of United Way Worldwide (UWW).  During Upic’s formative days, Brian was the CEO of the United Way of Central Ohio in Columbus.   During 1999, the United Ways in Columbus and Cincinnati co-sponsored a feasibility study to explore the potential benefits of sharing technology resources.  The end product of that study became the stand-alone non-profit organization known as Upic Solutions today.   

·         Brian’s United Way career since 1981 

·         Columbus/Cincinnati shared IT feasibility study in 2000 

·         Benefits of having multiple UW’s involved to form Upic 

·         Upic’s contribution to UW system transformation  

·         Opportunity to create UW back office solutions of future 

·         UWW’s evolution from membership org to network of UW’s 

·         Rapidly changing world of technology and future UW needs 

·         Moving from transactions to engagement via technology 

·         Thoughts about the future of Upic outside of the US 

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