# David Geilhufe

> David Geilhufe is the CEO of Resilia and a longtime nonprofit-technology operator whose career connects early community computing, CiviCRM, the Katrina PeopleFinder Project, NetSuite.org, GoFundMe, and today’s effort to build human-centered AI for philanthropy. His recurring idea is practical: technology should remove work from nonprofit teams, preserve human judgment, and make useful knowledge easier to share.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Resilia
- **Organizations:** Resilia, GoFundMe, Oracle NetSuite, NetSuite.org, CivicSpace, CiviCRM, Social Source Foundation, NTEN, Katrina PeopleFinder Project, Eastmont Computer Center, Beaumont Foundation
- **Education:** American University, University of California, Santa Cruz, Cowell College
- **Known for:** Organized the Katrina PeopleFinder Project, which grew to roughly 3,000 volunteers, 649,015 records, and more than one million searches., Helped create the PeopleFinder Interchange Format for sharing missing-person data across systems., Helped create and advance CiviCRM, an open-source constituent relationship management system for nonprofits.

## Career timeline

- **1990s** — Worked in community technology and digital-inclusion settings, including Eastmont Computer Center.
- **2005** — Helped create CiviCRM and served as an organizer of the Katrina PeopleFinder Project, which consolidated scattered missing-person information.
- **2006** — Served as managing partner at CivicSpace, working on an open-source community-organizing platform.
- **2007-2019** — Led and expanded NetSuite.org and Oracle NetSuite Social Impact programs serving nonprofits and social enterprises.
- **2014-2018** — Served on the board of NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network.
- **2014-2020** — Helped run the NetSuite Hackathon4Good program connecting technologists with nonprofit challenges.
- **2020s** — Worked as an operator and adviser in nonprofit-serving technology, including work with GoFundMe.
- **2024** — Became CEO of Resilia.
- **2025** — Led Resilia’s launch of Grantmaker Intelligence and a shift toward human-led, AI-enabled capacity building.
- **2026** — Led Resilia as it acquired Lightful’s intellectual property, including the BRIDGE digital-capacity program.

## Achievements

- Organized the Katrina PeopleFinder Project, which grew to roughly 3,000 volunteers, 649,015 records, and more than one million searches.
- Helped create the PeopleFinder Interchange Format for sharing missing-person data across systems.
- Helped create and advance CiviCRM, an open-source constituent relationship management system for nonprofits.
- Led NetSuite.org as its nonprofit reach grew to more than 1,000 nonprofit and social-enterprise users.
- Built Hackathon4Good into a recurring program linking NetSuite technologists with nonprofit operating challenges.
- Led Resilia’s 2025 launch of Grantmaker Intelligence, an AI product designed for philanthropic data and workflows.
- Led Resilia through the 2026 acquisition of Lightful’s intellectual property and BRIDGE program.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Resilia acquired Lightful’s intellectual property, including the BRIDGE program, extending a digital-capacity curriculum used by more than 3,000 nonprofits across more than 80 countries.
- **2025-12** — Geilhufe reflected on his first full year leading Resilia, the launch of Grantmaker Intelligence, responsible-AI guardrails, and a more hands-on capacity-building model.
- **2025** — Resilia launched Grantmaker Intelligence, designed to turn grant reports and related materials into traceable strategic insights for foundations.
- **2025** — Resilia developed CapacityNow, described by Geilhufe as a human-led, AI-enabled approach co-created with input from 7,800 nonprofits.

## Links

- Website: https://www.resilia.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geilhufe

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Last updated: 2026-08-18