Direct Relief CEO Meets With Global Business Leaders in Germany
Santa Barbara, Calif. – Direct Relief International President and CEO Thomas Tighe is joining with 40 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies this week in Frankfurt, Germany in event hosted by SAP, the world’s largest business-software firm.
California-based Direct Relief International runs SAP enterprise software to manage its global humanitarian aid programs, which span 60 countries and furnish essential medicines and medical supplies to locally run facilities in developing countries and in response to emergencies.
Tighe, the only CEO of a nonprofit organization attending, was invited by SAP co-CEO Henning Kagerman to join CEOs of dozens of the world’s largest corporations at the annual SAP CEO Event and also to speak on a panel of CEOs during the off-the-record meeting.
About Direct Relief International
Founded in 1948, Direct Relief International is a Santa Barbara, California–based nonprofit organization focused on improving the quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief works in 59 countries and has delivered more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian medical aid to health professionals serving impoverished communities since 2000. Direct Relief is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that has received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California’s largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. For more information, please visit www.DirectRelief.org.
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