About

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, 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.

Julie Semyck

SR. CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGER

Ensures every AwardSpring customer is happy and has a voice.

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.

Brittany Adams

CUSTOMER SUPPORT SPECIALIST

Front line support specialist available when you need her to quickly solve issues.



Sales

Brandon Weisenberger

DIRECTOR, SALES

Leads our Sales teams to ensure we're creating great value for our customers.

Diana Castro

SR. SDR

Educates our college and non-profit parters on the value of our platform.

Kavina Shah

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Aligns solutions with the unique needs of our partners across the eastern U.S.

Mike Schwarz, Jr.

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Aligns solutions with the unique needs of our partners across the western U.S.

Abby Trowbridge

SALES DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Leads our SDR team to finding great opportunities to drive growth.

Evan Kerr

SALES DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE

Educates our college and non-profit parters on the value of our platform.


Product Management & Engineering

Tessa Fedchenko

PRODUCT MANAGER

Designing the next generation of platform features and usability.


Becky Clark

SR. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Adds features that delight our customers to the AwardSpring platform.

Traci Richards

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Ensures the software we create meets our high standards of use and function.

Cristyan Moreno

FULL-STACK DEVELOPER

Brings new features to life on 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.



Sauveer Goel

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER

Keeps AwardSpring's Azure infrastructure running at its best day-in and day-out.


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:


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