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About Our History
Founded in 1995, MaestroSoft offers the most comprehensive suite of Event Management solutions for the not-for-profit consumer. MaestroSoft's industry-leading event management software, online management tools, and credit card processing tools bring fund-raising to a new level of ease and accessibility.   The Maestro team brings over 30 years of event management experience and more than 20 years of development expertise to its customers.   Maestro's initial product, AuctionMaestro®, was sold under a joint venture between Silverdale Software and Northwest Benefit Auctions for two years prior to the formation of MaestroSoft. During that time, the product was sold in face-to-face meetings, primarily to clients of Northwest Benefit Auctions. In 1995, MaestroSoft was formed and began to market the product nationally.	Today, Maestro's client list is a "Who's Who" of national and local organizations, schools, museums, hospitals, and other not-for-profits. These include organizations such as; the March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, United Cerebral Palsy, the Dave Thomas Foundation, Boys and Girls Clubs, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Ronald McDonald House, the Boeing Museum of Flight, professional sports teams, private schools including the prestigious Sidwell Friends School, and the US Olympic Committee. They have each come to rely on MaestroSoft year after year for their Event Management needs.   AuctionMaestro Pro® is the gold-standard for Event Management Software. To date, the AuctionMaestro line has assisted thousands of organizations in raising over three billion dollars.   MaestroSoft continues to expand the ways in which organizations can raise money.	MaestroWeb® takes the event online and gives organizations the ability to manage their auction data from any internet enabled computer, any time of the day or night. As the organization's staff enters auction items they are simultaneously building an online catalog that promotes their events and stimulates interest. With the addition of online registration, organizations can process registration fees and cash donations directly through their website.   qCheck payment processing gives clients the ability to accept credit cards at events, on their MaestroWeb pages, and year-round on their websites and by using our "cash register" on their computers.   MaestroMobile enables patrons to donate direct to charites through their web-enabled phones.   Text2Bid™ is our latest addition which adds mobile bidding to the AuctionMaestro Pro suite.  Guests can now use any cell phone as an electronic bidding device.

 

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Management Team

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Jay Fiske, Chairman & CEO, Founder
Kenneth R. Kleve, Chief Operating Officer
Johnny Johnson, Co-Founder
Kim F. Kenny, Acting Chief Financial Officer

Michael F. Bader, Chief Inspiration Officer

 

Jay Fiske, Chairman & CEO, Founder

A Nationally recognized Benefit Auctioneer and Consultant, Mr. Fiske has experience and expertise in entrepreneurial corporate operations and sales. He has been instrumental in the growth of every company with which he has worked. His knowledge and understanding of event management, particularly auctions and golf tournaments, is the cornerstone of the expansion of MaestroSoft's current and future product offerings.

 

Mr. Fiske has developed a national reputation by providing auctioneering and auction consulting services for organizations from the Arthritis Foundation of Washington to Zonta International through Northwest Benefit Auctions for many years. He has helped raise millions of dollars for a wide variety of organizations. He is regularly called upon to train auction committees in the techniques which increase auction yields, while maintaining a fun-filled environment required for a successful benefit auction. His clients routinely earn much more money from their auctions as a result of the added efficiency gained from implementing his tips. He is the auction consulting knowledge base from which the basis for AuctionMaestro was formed, and continues to add his expertise to the product improvements. Mr. Fiske is regularly called upon as a speaker and presenter for conferences and workshops for organizations such as the American Heart Association, United Cerebral Palsy, Operation Warm and numerous Rotary, Kiwanis and other service clubs.

 

Mr. Fiske's past corporate experience includes over ten years at John Fluke Manufacturing Co., an electronics equipment manufacturing company, where he was their "Summit Club" winner as the top field sales person in just his first full year, then rose through the sales ranks to become the National Sales Development Manager. While at Fluke Manufacturing, he established new business methods, automated the sales force through an innovative field automation system, and was an innovator of new processes to create efficiency in the sales channels. An instructor in both the Miller-Heiman Strategic Selling system, and in the Deming principles of Continuous Improvement, he is able to motivate and train sales forces to achieve excellent results. Following his career at Fluke manufacturing, he was Director of Sales for Precision Digital Images Corporation where he established the company's sales channels during its start up phase. He has also served as the Vice President of Sales for Adaptive Software, another start-up software company, where he was instrumental in helping to acquire initial funding in excess of two million dollars.

 

 

Kenneth R. Kleve, Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Kleve brings to MaestroSoft, Inc. a decade of sales and customer service experience. Most recently, Ken ran a successful financial consulting and planning business, where he was responsible for identifying, attracting, and retaining high net-worth clients. He graduated from the Professional Development Program with the highest rating of "Far Exceeds." Mr. Kleve holds several securities licenses, including the Series 7, 63, and 65.

 

Prior to moving to the Northwest from Cleveland, Ohio, Ken attended the University of Toledo, where he received his Baccalaureate in Small Business Management. While at the University of Toledo, he was the founder of the collegiate chapter of the nation's largest professional sales and marketing fraternity, Pi Sigma Epsilon. While living in Toledo, he also served on the Board of Directors for the local chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs of America.

 

Ken brings a wealth of not-for-profit experience gained from serving in a variety of volunteer roles. He served as the fundraising coordinator for United Way effort, and in Toledo, Ohio he created the relationship between Cherry Street Mission and Pi Sigma Epsilon fraternity.

 

Mr. Kleve is a resident of Woodinville where he lives with his wife Lorie and their two sons. He has served in a variety of executive committee positions for Little Bit Therapeutic Horseback Riding Center in Woodinville, Washington, currently serving on the Board of Directors.

 

 

Johnny Johnson, Co-Founder

Mr. Johnson, an expert in software design, has an impressive background in the software industry. He was a flight instructor at NAS Miramar, teaching computer and radar systems, and an instructor at the US Naval Academy, where he taught computer science for four years. After retiring from the Navy, he was a computer project management consultant for the FAA where he designed, wrote and integrated all PC Artemis modules in the FAA's project management system.

 

Mr. Johnson has worked closely with Microsoft since 1989 as a Consulting Partner in Microsoft's Solution Providers Program. He has been a presenter at all of the Microsoft TechEd symposiums. Mr. Johnson has conducted project management and database training and consulting for a variety of government and commercial companies including: the FAA, US Air Force, Washington Mutual Bank, Microsoft, Tandem Computers, Boeing, Martin Marietta, Honeywell Measurex, Amtrak and others. Most recently he designed and wrote a database system for Amtrak Engineering to automatically assign union personnel to jobs based on seniority, qualifications, and bid preferences.

 

As a member of Rotary International, Mr. Johnson initially wrote a software program (PC Auctioneer) primarily to help him manage his Rotary club auctions year after year. That work led him to a meeting with Jay Fiske which in turn led to the creation of the most powerful and comprehensive benefit auction management software available, AuctionMaestro® Software.

 

Kim F. Kenny, Acting Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Kenney has recently been invited to join the MaestroSoft Advisory Board. His professional experience spans 28 years and includes work with the United States Congress, the Executive Office of the President of the United States, Price Waterhouse, AT&T and Celumovil in South America. He is experienced in guiding new companies through the initial funding stages, as well as, working through the necessary legal, financial, and regulatory requirements. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University and is a Certified Public Accountant in Washington State.

 

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Our Affiliates

Northwest Benefit Auctions   Northwest Benefit Auctions is your full-service auction partner. Find out why hundreds of non-profit organizations just like yours have chosen Northwest Benefit Auctions to take the stress out of the benefit auction process.   They have a special staff of auction experts that can: Provide you with an auctioneer who will engage your guests and encourage them to be generous. Meet with your auction committee throughout the planning process. Give you helpful tips that can add as much as 25% to your auction receipts. Train and monitor your auction volunteers the night of the event. Help you run your auction, including: registration, data entry, cashiering, recording, etc. Not only increase profitability, but also keep you and your committee from reinventing the wheel every year. See how Northwest Benefit Auctions can help you have a winning benefit event, with less stress and better results than you even imagined. For more information, contact Northwest Benefit Auctions or visit the Northwest Benefit Auctions website.   Back to Top
Blackbaud   Blackbaud is the leading global provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations. More than 15,000 organizations - including the American Red Cross, Bowdoin College, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, the Detroit Zoological Society, Episcopal High School, Help the Aged, the New York Philharmonic, and United Way of America - use Blackbaud products and consulting services for fundraising, financial management, business intelligence, Web site management, school administration, and ticketing.   Blackbaud's solutions include The Raiser's Edge®, The Financial Edge™, The Education Edge™, The Patron Edge®, Blackbaud® NetCommunity™, The Information Edge™, The Researcher's Edge™, WealthPoint™, and ProspectPoint™, as well as a wide range of consulting and educational services.   Founded in 1981, Blackbaud is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, and has operations in Toronto, Ontario; Glasgow, Scotland; and Sydney, Australia.   For more information on Blackbaud, Inc, please go to the Blackbaud, Inc. website.   Back to Top
International Automated Transactions Services   IATS is a leading provider of integrated end-to-end donation processing solutions for nonprofit organizations. Our simple, seamless transaction processing services are specially designed to help nonprofit organizations save time and money on fundraising, allowing you to focus more of your efforts on your mission.   IATS has been chosen as MaestroSoft's credit card processor, allowing your organization the ability to efficiently and effectively manage your event registrations and gifts.   For more information on IATS Payments, Inc., please visit their website, or call them at 866-300-4287.

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