Rich Conte is a Principal Product Manager for SaaS Enablement at Blackbaud. He has spent the past 16 years at Blackbaud and 25 years in the Software Product Development industry working in a variety of roles across Engineering, Design, User Experience and Product Management. During that time at Blackbaud and previously at Thomson Financial, Rich played a lead strategic role in delivering new cloud-enabled solutions to the Enterprise CRM and Investment Performance Management markets. He is also an active advocate and organizer for the local Charleston technology startup community and has organized Charleston’s Startup Weekend for the past several years.