An exceptional platform with top notch support starts with its people.
Our Vision
To broaden access to educational opportunity.
Our Mission
To help scholarship administrators connect donor funds to the students who need them.
Our History
AwardSpring was officially born on January 1, 2015. In that first year, we focused on creating a viable new product, testing it, and building our approach to sales and marketing. From 2016-2018, we shifted our attention to perfecting the AwardSpring service model and solidifying our product/market fit. By early 2019, we felt that we had good traction in the market - bolstered by terrific feedback from our customers about both our product and our service model - so we layered on a more robust sales and marketing engine that integrated everything the team learned about the product, support, and branding to bring AwardSpring to market more aggressively.
That sales and marketing engine, coupled with our unique, much-appreciated approach to customer service and on-boarding and our outstanding employee loyalty, strengthened our position in the marketplace and has led to really exciting growth since 2019.
With terrific customers, a great product, and a dedicated and loyal team, AwardSpring continues to focus on growing in the scholarship management space. In 2023 and beyond, the team will invest in making our product even more useful for our target markets, driving even greater growth in the years to come.
Our Core Values
ACTION: When in doubt, spring into action. Be accountable. Teach what you've learned.
DETERMINATION: Simplify and improve everything you touch. Expect obstacles. Be creative and relentless in your effort to overcome them.
HUMANITY: Show empathy and kindness to everyone you interact with.
IMPROVEMENT: Work hard every day to grow your knowledge and capabilities. Strive to become invaluable to clients and peers.
Our Team
Management, Finance, and HR
Kurt H. Reilly
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Drives company strategy, marketing and investor relations for the enterprise.
Doris Espiritu
CONTROLLER
Provides financial guidance, accounting, compliance oversight, and HR expertise.
Customer Success
Jill Murphy
VP OF CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Heads up our Customer Success team to exceed our customer's expectations.
Samantha Lucas
CLIENT SERVICES
TEAM LEAD
Cordially gets our new customers up and running on the AwardSpring platform.
Milan Bhatnagar
CUSTOMER SUPPORT & TRAINING SPECIALIST
Quick and friendly support specialist available when you need him most.
Sheri Kennedy
IMPLEMENTATION & TRAINING SPECIALIST
A friendly onboarding specialist welcoming our new customers to the platform.
Leah Kanost
CUSTOMER SUPPORT & ONBOARDING SPECIALIST
A friendly voice during both onboarding/training and our busiest support seasons.
Julie Semyck
SR. CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGER
Ensures every AwardSpring customer is happy and has their voice heard about both product and service.
Lora Barber
IMPLEMENTATION & TRAINING SPECIALIST
Warmly onboarding our new customers to the AwardSpring platform.
Marina Pavicevic
CUSTOMER SUPPORT & TRAINING SPECIALIST
Gets those customer support requests resolved fast and friendly.

Diana Castro
CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGER
Brings the voice of the customer to the forefront through renewals and engagement.
Sales & Marketing
Brandon Weisenberger
DIRECTOR OF SALES
Leads our Sales teams to ensure we're creating great value for our customers.
Kavina Shah
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Aligns solutions with the unique needs of our partners across the eastern U.S.
Julia Russell
SALES DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE
Educates our college and non-profit parters on the value of our platform.
Milan Khali
FREELANCE COPYWRITER
Creates outstanding written content for think pieces, blogs, and other branded collateral.
Mike Schwarz, Jr.
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Aligns solutions with the unique needs of our partners.
Abby Trowbridge
SALES DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Leads our SDR team to finding great opportunities to drive growth.
Joslyn Desforges
SALES DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE
Works with our higher ed and non-profit prospects to learn the value of our platform.
Zak Lay
FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Brings AwardSpring branded content to live with beautiful visual designs.
Product Management & Engineering
Tessa Fedchenko
PRODUCT MANAGER
Designing the next generation of platform features and usability.
Traci Richards
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Ensures the software we create meets our high standards of use and function.
Cristyan Moreno
FRONTEND DEVELOPER
Brings new features to life on the AwardSpring platform.
Mike Frame
SR BACKEND DEVELOPER
AwardSpring's C#.net guru adding great new features to the platform for our customers.
Krishnaraj Rajagopal
FULL STACK DEVELOPER
Adds terrific new features and reliability to the AwardSpring platform.
Dan Rovito
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
Dev-guru who oversees the development of the AwardSpring platform.
Cass Montemagni
PRODUCTION SUPPORT ENGINEER
Ensures AwardSpring is running smoothly through our partnership with Azure.
Kirk Koster
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Adds great new features to the AwardSpring platform.

Karthikeyan Kothandam
FRONTEND DEVELOPER
Brings new features to life with AwardSpring user interface.
Our Dream Scholarships
Our customers inspire us with the uniqueness and inclusivity of their many thousands of awards. Here's a collection of dream scholarships from some of our employees - hopefully someday we can make these come true for future students:
