Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization Care2
Location Redwood City, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
Website www.care2.com/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
As the founder of Care2, Randy is a pioneer of online advocacy. Randy launched Care2 in 1998 to empower individuals to take collective action in support of social and environmental causes. Today, Care2 is the world’s largest social network for good, with over 40 million standing together, starting petitions and sharing stories that inspire action.
People, nonprofits and mission-based brands are making world-changing impact with Care2, helping individuals, animals and the environment.
Randy was inspired to start Care2 after receiving email petition-chainletters that filled inboxes in the early days of the Internet. Care2 provided a central platform for thousands of early online petition authors to collect signatures, scoring victories on both local and national levels.
Care2 was one of the first online social ventures, innovating an “Engine For Good” model where good actions generate revenues that help fuel more good actions. The Company serves as a matchmaker between Consumer Brands, Nonprofit Organizations and Care2′s influential, 70% female, audience. The Company has recruited more than 50 million donors and advocates for 2,700 nonprofit organizations and mission based brands.
Before starting Care2, Randy co-founded one of the web’s first viral apps – electronic greeting card service, eCards.com, in 1995.
Randy is a proud composter, avid naturalist, and kiteboarder, and once trekked across Borneo with two Penan tribesmen. Randy loves spending time with his two young children, his wife, Nancy, and a menagerie of pets.
Randy holds an AB from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
