Meet Our Team

Meet members of our team!

We believe we can all benefit from sharing life experience. Our team of mission-driven professionals is excited to modernize human support and help re-connect humans through our platform – the “Marketplace for Sharing Life Experience.”

The heads, hearts, and hands that help
make LifeGuides possible.

Founded with the goal of reducing human struggle and suffering, LifeGuides is on a mission to grow a platform for caring people to do extraordinary good.

Mark Donohue
Founder & Executive Chairman

Derek Lundsten
President & Chief Culture Officer

David Hester, Ph.D
VP, Guides Community

James Brissenden
VP, Operations

Carolyn Gundersen
Executive VP, Enterprise Growth

Mark McDonough
Head, Data Science

Mark Christensen
Sr. Director, People & Partnerships

Gretchen Grove
Director, Client Success

Kathryn Patten
Sr. Director, Guides Operations

Taylor Schlosser
Lead Analyst, Benefits Consulting

Jeff Lowe
Sr. Director, Engineering & Product

Leading our Social Impact Council

Chairman, LifeGuides^® Social Impact Council

Press Release – LifeGuides^® is delighted to announce Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., the President and CEO of The Society of Human Resource Managers (SHRM), has joined as Chairman of the newly created LifeGuides^® Social Impact Council.