Meryl Natchez, Founder and CEO of TechProse

Meryl Natchez has been CEO of TechProse since 1982.  Natchez developed TechProse from a single person operation to a corporation with more than 80 employees. An alumna of Harvard University, Natchez has received numerous awards for business development and community service. She is a founder of OPTIC, a nonprofit organization that provides low-income Contra Costa residents with technology, literacy, and life skills to become economically self-sufficient. She has received the San Francisco United Way / Bay Area Works Award for assisting in welfare-to-work efforts, and a Founders’ Award from the Open Door Foundation, which promotes technical education at the Junior College Level.

Natchez has taught courses at San Francisco State University, University of California Berkeley Extension, and California State University Sacramento. She is an international presenter, and has spoken to business and technical audiences in Japan, Munich, Paris, and London, as well as across the United States.

Natchez is past President of the Northern California Chapter of the National Association for Computer Consultant Businesses and of the San Francisco Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. She is the former Chair of the Contra Costa Council Technology Task Force.