Location Seattle, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Jon Ramer is a leading social entrepreneur, communications designer and self-described "realistic optimist" whose effectiveness at enabling large-scale collaboration reaches back to the first groupware software to provide an email system for personal computers (The Coordinator, 1984). By 2001, two patents and a few successful startups
later, Jon was turning his focus to community advocacy and social enterprise. Jon was the Executive Director of two nonprofits he also co-founded: The Interra Project, focused on rewarding consumers for supporting socially and environmentally responsible businesses, for which he raised $1.5 million, and the Compassionate Action Network, through which Jon and collaborators brought His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Seattle for a five-day visit, orchestrating Washington's largest public event to date.
