NGP VAN

NGP VAN, Inc.
Private
Industry IT Consulting, Software as a service, Web hosting service, Online fundraising, new media technology
Founder Mark Sullivan, Nathaniel Pearlman
Headquarters Washington, D.C.
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Stuart Trevelyan
(President & CEO)
Revenue Increase US$ 26.8m(2014)[1]
Number of employees
 Increase 163 (2014)[1]
Divisions Fundraising
Compliance
Union Organizing
Voter Contact
New Media
Website ngpvan.com

NGP VAN is a privately owned American company specializing in helping progressive campaigns and organizations leverage technology to meet their goals.[2] In 2009, the company was the largest partisan provider of campaign compliance software, used by most Democratic members of Congress.[3] The company's services are utilized by clients such as the Obama 2012 presidential campaign,[4] the British Liberal Democrats, and the Liberal Party of Canada.

Its current president and CEO, Stuart Trevelyan, was a veteran of the 1992 Clinton-Gore War Room, providing research, analysis, and whip counts to the Clinton Administration as a member of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs.[5]

History

NGP VAN was created in November 2010 by the merger of its two predecessor companies, NGP Software, founded in 1997 by Nathaniel Pearlman, who later served as chief technology officer for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign,[6] in his attic in Washington, D.C, and Voter Activation Network, founded in 2001 by Mark Sullivan, in his study in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[7]

In October 2014, NGP VAN launched their nonprofit arm, EveryAction.

2016 Presidential Election

On the 18 of December 2015, the firewall between the voter data collected by various Democratic presidential candidates using NGP VAN's software was reportedly compromised by a patch issued by the company, allowing candidates access to other campaigns' confidential information. The Sanders campaign admitted that their national data director, Josh Uretsky, had been accessing voter information collected by the Clinton campaign, saying he did so merely to probe the extent of the issue before reporting it.[8][9] The DNC then cut off the Sanders campaign's access to the master voter file temporarily until the campaign could bring themselves back into compliance with DNC rules.[10] As this file is necessary for effective voter outreach, Sanders supporters accused the DNC of giving the Clinton campaign an unfair advantage at a critical point in the election. The Sanders campaign threatened to sue the DNC in District Court, and was given access back to their own campaign database effective December 19, one day later. [11][12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "NGP VAN - Washington, DC". The Inc.5000.
  2. ↑ "About Us - NGP VAN".
  3. ↑ Becca Milfeld and Anne Marson (September 15, 2009). "Suite Talk". POLITICO.com.
  4. ↑ "Where does Obama's Money Go?". iHartPolitics.com.
  5. ↑ "Stuart Trevelyan". Bloomberg.com.
  6. ↑ "LinkedIn: Nathaniel Pearlman".
  7. ↑ "VAN:Personal Democracy Forum". July 5, 2010.
  8. ↑ http://www.msnbc.com/thomas-roberts/watch/fired-sanders-campaign-staffer-speaks-out-588356675888?cid=sm_tw_msnbc
  9. ↑ http://blog.ngpvan.com/news/data-security-and-privacy
  10. ↑ https://medium.com/@AmyKDacey/here-s-what-happened-with-ngp-van-the-sanders-campaign-and-the-clinton-campaign-d75dd1d2edbf#.vyswby7ib
  11. ↑ Taylor, Jessica (19 December 2015). "DNC Restores Sanders Campaign's Access to Voter Files After Data Breach: NPR". NPR. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  12. ↑ Wagner, John (19 December 2015). "Accord reached after Sanders sues the DNC over suspended access to critical voter list".

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