Team Directory
How do you create impact in your role at Tides?
I help find and bring in new clients and partners as well as coordinate our marketing and communications strategy.
What is the most daring thing you’ve done?
A lot of backpacking in Southeast Asia and Western China in college.
More about Alex:
Alex currently serves as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Communications leading Tides marketing, communications and new client development efforts. Alex was previously Director of Innovation Investments and Portfolio Director at the Skoll Foundation. Alex also serves as founding Chairman and President of Excelerate Foundation, a role that he has held for over 25 years. Prior to Skoll, Alex spent 18 years as senior investment professional at several leading venture capital firms.
What inspires you to work in social change?
Growing up on the border with family and friends on both sides drives me to build an equitable world of social justice and shared prosperity.
More about Amanda:
As head of Tides Foundation and People Operations, Amanda Keton ensures that donors and staff can work together to create meaningful progressive social change. Previously, Amanda served as General Counsel for Tides Network and is also the CEO of Tides Advocacy, the 501 (c)(4) entity in the Tides family of organizations. She oversees strategy, programmatic and financial operations for the social welfare organization. Before that, she worked for Ernst & Young providing nonprofit organizations with consulting, advisory and compliance services. Amanda serves on the Network for Good Board to unleash generosity with pioneering crowdsourcing technology to aggregate small-dollar donations. She previously co-chaired the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center when they tripled their affordable nonprofit rental space and co-located service providers to help the Center’s program participants thrive in San Francisco. She also formerly served on the Equal Rights Advocates Board of Directors. Prior to law school, Amanda completed a Master of Arts in Education while teaching middle school and wrote her thesis on culturally and linguistically diverse students opting out of gifted and talented programs. Amanda is a member of the California State Bar and graduated with a Master of Laws in Taxation cum laude and Juris Doctor from University of San Diego School of Law.
Jamie Antonazzo
Executive Assistant
JenMarie Landig
Deputy Chief of Staff
How do you create impact in your role at Tides?
I help improve the effectiveness and productivity of the CEO and Board, and thus the organization as a whole.
What is the most daring thing you’ve done?
Uprooted 5 times, moving across the country and the world, to learn, work, and grow. I also jumped off a cliff in Brazil (hang gliding)!
More about JenMarie:
JenMarie is a nonprofit operations professional with over 15 years of experience and an entrepreneurial spirit. She thrives on cross-departmental collaboration and technological solutions.
JenMarie has experience living, working, studying, and traveling in over 35 countries, and is passionate about progressive social change — within the organization, in her community, and in the world.
Judith Hill
Chief Financial Officer
How do you create impact in your role at Tides?
I collaborate with corporations, foundations & individuals to resolve financing needs and invest in impact to further social equity.
What is the most daring thing you’ve done?
At 27, I packed up the house, two kids and the dog and moved to Colorado Springs from Oklahoma City. Although we had little money and no job, it was absolutely the right move.
More about Judith:
Judith Hill has been a Senior Financial and Administrative Executive in non-profit and/or educational institutions for over 20 years. She has served in the Chief Financial role at the San Francisco Art Institute, Heald College, Sequoia Institute and CTB, a division of McGraw-Hill. Judith began her career in public accounting with Touche Ross, has an MBA with MIS emphasis from Regis College and is a Colorado licensed CPA. She is a member of the California Society of CPAs, has served on the Board of Enterprise for High School Students and the ACCSC Finance Review Committee.
Kriss E Deiglmeier
Chief Executive Officer
How do you create impact in your role at Tides?
Working to expand the “we” for a world of shared prosperity and social justice.
What inspires you to work in social change?
From the USA to Iran to Myanmar, people are generous, kind and building a better world. We can unleash their power and potential.
What is the most daring thing you’ve done?
My kids would say moving the family to Myanmar, but I would say let’s have a conversation over coffee for the real answer.
What’s your favorite quote or motto?
No one is as smart as everyone.
More about Kriss:
Kriss is the Chief Executive Officer of Tides. Under Kriss’ leadership, Tides grant making grew over 100% in three years to over $200 million in 110 countries.
Kriss has more than 20 years of senior executive experience that spans the business, social enterprise, nonprofit, academic, and philanthropic sectors. She excels in traversing diverse worlds and finding common ground on which to collaborate and bring about change. Recognized as a pioneer in the field of social innovation, Kriss has presented nationally and internationally on social innovation, social entrepreneurship, design thinking, and public-private partnerships. Kriss has guest-lectured at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Hitotsubashi University, Kyoto University, and Kyushu University. She has also written and published leading thought pieces on social impact, including “Rediscovering Social Innovation” published in Stanford Social Innovation Review as well as a chapter in The Real Problem Solvers (Stanford University Press 2012).
Before joining Tides, Kriss was the founding Executive Director for the Center for Social Innovation (CSI) at Stanford University. She established CSI, which quickly gained a global reputation as a pre-eminent leader in the emerging social innovation field. While at Stanford, she taught a course on social innovation through corporate social responsibility and served as an advisor to the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies while living in Myanmar.
Prior to Stanford, Kriss was the Chief Operating Officer for Juma Ventures, one of the early innovators in social enterprise business.
Kriss has served on a number of boards and advisory groups. She received her BA from the University of Washington and her MBA from UC Berkeley. She resides in the Bay Area with her husband, two children and dog, Lucy. Kriss has visited over forty countries and has many more on her “wish to visit” list.
Suneela Jain
General Counsel
How do you create impact in your role at Tides?
I support the work of our teams by providing practical, mission-focused, responsive advice and direction regarding legal matters.
What inspires you to work in social change?
I believe every human being should be and feel fundamentally valued and respected.
More about Suneela:
As Tides General Counsel, Suneela keeps Tides in legal compliance and manages organizational risk so our donors and doers can focus on making meaningful progressive social change. Prior to joining Tides, Suneela worked as an attorney for Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Gunderson Dettmer, and as a pro bono attorney at The Nature Conservancy. She joined Tides with breadth and depth of experience advising individuals, non-profits, small business owners, venture funds, government officials, and public and private companies, in formal and pro bono capacities, about issues ranging from corporate governance to joint venture partnerships. At Cleary, she also chaired the Microenterprise Project at Volunteers of Legal Services and served as a member of the Pro Bono, Diversity & Inclusion, and Mentoring Committees.
Suneela received her JD from Yale University, and her BA from UCLA, where she studied political science and international relations. While at Yale, Suneela’s activities included providing support to small island nations at the 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, working at a civil society organization in Argentina, acting as Student Director of the Orville H. Schell Center for the Study of International Human Rights, and of the Community Development and Financial Institutions Clinic, and advocating for refugees as a member of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project. While at UCLA, she studied in Ghana and worked at the Center for Democracy and Development. Suneela is a member of the bars of New York and California.
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