Primary Job Title CEO Primary Organization RoughRider America
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Whirlwind Executive Director since 2003; 2004 San Jose Tech Museum Laureate and member of Santa Clara University’s 2006 Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) cohort; A former wheelchair mechanic at the UC Berkeley Disabled Students Program in late 70's and early 80's, throughout the 90's he helped transform a disabled sports club in
Novosibirsk (Siberia) into Russia's first independent living center and helped establish the first university level disabled students program in Russia at Novosibirsk State University. He is a contributing author and member of the editorial committee of the World Health Organization Guidelines on the Provision of Manual Wheelchairs in Less Resourced Settings; Former chair of International Special Interest Group within the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA).
