Our Team
Rose Broome
Founder & CEO
Rose is passionate about using the power of technology to create social change. She came up with HandUp after passing a woman sleeping on the street in the winter of 2012 and wanting to see a new way to give. Previously, Rose served as COO at SuperBetter Labs and as a Data Manager for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Rose loves organizing the community and has been active in groups like Science Hack Day and Food Not Bombs. In 2015, HandUp won the Webby Award for Best Charity People’s Voice and Rose was listed in the Top 100 People in Tech by Business Insider.
Sammie Rayner
Founder & COO
Sammie joined Rose in founding HandUp after years of running her own poverty alleviation-focused nonprofit and seeing first-hand the need for better tools to fundraise and engage online communities. Most of her time is spent building partnerships with top nonprofits across the US who use HandUp for their fundraising needs. She also manages company operations and finances. Sammie is excited to bring her knowledge from building poverty programs internationally to tackle urban poverty in the US. She frequently speaks at social good and human service events such as SOCAP, Stanford’s Social Media on Purpose conference, and more.
Katrina Belda
Partner Support
Katrina leads Community Support to ensure the platform remains an effortless experience for HandUp partners, donors, and members. Previously, she worked at Postmates as a very early Customer Support/Operations member helping manage and scale the team to 60+ members. Before this, she did support and product marketing at LiveCareer - a resume building site for unemployed people and job seekers of all stages. While at LiveCareer, Katrina lead support trainings in the Philippines, where she also dedicated time to building housing for impoverished local communities. Katrina has a BS in Entrepreneurship and Innovation with a minor in Sociology from USF.
Barney Jackson
Lead Software Engineer
Barney leads the engineering side of HandUp. His days are spent building, scaling and maintaining HandUp’s tools and services. Barney came to HandUp with over ten years experience in Software Engineering and Web Development, most recently as a Full Stack Software Engineer and first employee at Coffee Meets Bagel where he helped to grow their product and team into an internationally recognized online dating app. But he’s not all code; Barney is passionate about finding remedies for social and climate related issues, is a board sports enthusiast, and loves reading history books.
Patricia Narayan
Sales & Marketing Operations
Patricia joined HandUp in 2016 to lead Sales & Marketing Operations. She was drawn to HandUp because of it’s mission to be a bridge between technology and alleviating poverty, and now works to spread that message. Before HandUp she worked at early-stage startup, Revfluence as an Associate Campaign Manager connecting brands to social media influencers. Prior to that she was a Social Media Fellow at Mosaic, a solar-based B corporation. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a double degree in Environmental Economics & Political Economy. On her way to and from the office, she can be found listening to podcasts about everything from economics to Dawson’s Creek.
