Sanford Dickert

Sanford Dickert is a director and heads the U.S. office of Rawlings Atlantic, a U.K. based consultancy company "specialising in new venture actualisation" and is also director of its political campaign subsidiary Rawlings Political. 

Dickert was the Chief Technology Officer for the Kerry Campaign with responsibilities including development of an enterprise-quality Internet infrastructure, online fundraising and online community development during the primary season. 

Prior to the end of the primary season, Dickert left to become Congressman Peter Deutsch's Director of Internet Strategy, the Kerry on-line team had raised $50 million on-line, and went on to raise $81 million in the primaries. As Director of Internet Strategy for Peter Deutsch's U.S. Senate campaign, Dickert provides a case study that "online fundraising increased fifteen-fold", the campaign "4000 new registered supporters" and that "unique visitors to the site increased seven-fold". (The detailed case study is available here.(pdf))

Dickert has since worked with other Democratic campaigns in Florida and New York state in various positions including Campaign Manager and Online Strategy Consultant. Dickert blogs about technology and politics at Political Gastronomica, provides commentary on technology solutions for political campaigns at PoliticalWarez, and currently instructs at the Cooper Union in New York City. 

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