CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Etherios, a leading cloud computing services company, today announced the appointment of salesforce.com veteran and former leader of that company’s nonprofit programs, Tucker MacLean, as its new Nonprofit and Education Practice Director. MacLean will help Etherios expand upon on its early successes in moving nonprofits to the cloud. He will also be responsible for developing a philanthropic strategy for the Company to leverage its rapid growth to give back to the community.

"Salesforce.com has ushered in a breakthrough for nonprofit organizations by enabling them access to a world-class enterprise technology that most nonprofits could not previously afford,” says Mike Dannenfeldt, Etherios Founder and CEO. “Tucker was a catalyst for this progress and we are thrilled to have him join the leadership team.”

MacLean joined salesforce.com in 2000 where he started consulting in the professional services organization. He progressed into a sales and business development role before taking on leadership responsibilities in the nonprofit and social change community in 2006. During his tenure he created an innovative discounted pricing model for nonprofit and education organizations, and was most recently VP of Customer Success for the salesforce.com Foundation. In that role he oversaw partner programs, as well as the adoption and use of Salesforce CRM by more than 13,000 nonprofit organizations.

"During my time at salesforce.com I worked with numerous consulting partners and was most impressed by the innovative and efficient customer solutions delivered by Etherios," says MacLean. "Etherios combines its project experience, technical architecture and training expertise into a methodology that accelerates its customers’ success. I'm excited to help extend these benefits to the nonprofit community." MacLean also notes how this methodology leverages and relies on the social capabilities of the Force.com Platform, which is long overdue for nonprofits that have always had to be ‘social organizations.’"

About Etherios

Recognized as an “Innovator in the Cloud” by salesforce.com, Etherios is a leading cloud computing services company. We help companies of all sizes and industries realize their social and IT strategies around cloud computing for CRM, system integration, training, and custom application development.

Founded in 2008, Etherios advises on and draws from industry-leading cloud-based technologies (Salesforce.com, Google and Amazon) to enable our customers' success. Etherios has offices in Chicago and Dallas providing consulting & training services from coast to coast in the U.S. and abroad. In addition, over 1000 companies use Etherios' products to manage and customize their salesforce.com sales, service, and custom cloud applications.

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