Patrick Tardif, CEO

Mr. Tardif is the founder and CEO of Eravita, Inc., and one of the founders of Story of My Life Foundation. He is also a founding Director and main sponsor for the not-for-profit organization East Bay IT Group, and helped co-found Engineers Without Frontiers Quebec in Quebec City in 1993. Mr. Tardif has B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Laval University, Quebec, Canada. He switched careers 13 years ago from Mechanical Engineering to his original love of software development, which had begun at an early age when he laid hands on a new Commodore 64. His ongoing involvement in emerging technologies propelled him to move to Silicon Valley over a decade ago, where he is now realizing his long term dream of launching Story of My Life and being a part of the Foundation to keep peoples’ Stories forever.

Kristen Kuhns, COO

Kristen Kuhns is the Executive Director and one of the founders of the East Bay IT Group www.ebig.org, a 10,000 member non-profit for technology executives in the bay area. She is also the VP of operations at TierSolution, Inc. where runs the operations of the East Bay office, the office in Bangalore, India, and consultants who are currently scattered as far as Canada, Russia, Dubai, India, the UK, and across the US. Before joining TierSolution Kristen was the IT Liaison for Borden Capital Management Partners, the management team of Borden, Inc. as well as assistant to the Controller. Prior to Borden she helped roll out one of the first largest b2b integrations for Pepsico, Inc. Kristen graduated summa cum laude with a dual BA/MA in international business from Case Western Reserve University, Phi Beta Kappa, and is currently writing her first fiction novel.