{"id":979,"date":"2021-09-14T08:16:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T08:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-philanthropy-abilitycentral.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=board&#038;p=979"},"modified":"2021-09-16T23:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T23:00:51","slug":"barry-saudan-president-and-ceo","status":"publish","type":"board","link":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/board\/barry-saudan-president-and-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Saudan, President and CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barry-Saudan.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-980\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Barry Saudan was appointed by CCAF\/Ability Central Board of Directors as President and Chief Executive Officer in January of 2015, following the retirement of Shelley Bergum, one of CCAF\u2019s founders and CEO since 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to taking over as CEO, Barry was the Director of Operations and part of CCAF\u2019s Executive Management Team that oversees CCAF\u2019s contract with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to manage and operate the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program (DDTP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barry has over 30 years\u2019 of executive management experience, including technical operations and strategic management in the financial systems and software sectors. Barry\u2019s experience also includes working for a nonprofit in the workforce development sector and as a small business owner. Barry holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Business Administration and Under Graduate Degrees in Information Systems Management and Electronic Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":980,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barry-Saudan.jpeg",170,150,false],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/board"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}