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After years of building custom web development projects for associations and nonprofits in the Washington, DC area, our company (then called nonprofitCMS), created a custom awards system for a trade association. We built a system to collect thousands of applications and perform online review with hundreds of reviewers. Little did we know at the time but this online entry/review system would become the backbone of our future.
Our company officially renamed and re-branded to OpenWater in 2014. Interest in our awards product exploded. Based on the feedback and interest from our customer base we launched our abstract management software (called Armada) in 2015. Armada evolved into a robust Abstract Management platform with thousands of users all over the world.
In 2020 we launched our Virtual Conference product based on the needs of an association conference with 1000s of concurrent sessions that needed to go virtual. Today, we’ve incorporated all of this functionality into our robust software platform. Clients use our platform to manage awards, grants, scholarships, fellowships, and more along with their virtual meetings.
In 2021 ASI, the makers of iMIS Association Software, acquired OpenWater. As a member of the ASI family of products, OpenWater benefits from the increased investment into its product, customer support team and global reach that ASI is able to leverage for us. In many ways the story of OpenWater is only just beginning.
It’s used to describe the distance between two boats at the finish line. In close races, the front of the trailing boat overlaps with the leading boat. That’s normal. But sometimes, when one crew has truly pulled away from the competition, there’s no overlap at all between the boats.There’s just open water. Our name conjures up our commitment to advancing our solutions and ourselves. One that evokes limitless possibilities and unbroken horizons. And one that reflects upon the people with whom we do business – the visionaries, the go-getters, the people doing everything they can to get ahead of the pack … and stay there.
A proven platform used by hundreds of organizations including ASAE to streamline and simplify your submission and review process for awards, abstracts, grants, scholarships, and more.
We are thinkers, doers, visionaries, planners, engineers, artists, technologists, developers, designers, and more! We believe in what we do.
We are OpenWater.
Tim is a Co-Founder of OpenWater and possesses an innate ability to translate and break down complex technical information to non-technical people. While focused on the marketing and sales side of the business, Tim is also an avid powerlifter, Jiu Jitsu practitioner, dad and dog lover.
Kunal, co-founder of OpenWater, manages the direction and delivery of our platform. He enjoys most the challenge that comes with innovating our platform without alienating long time users of it. In his free time he loves to tinker with things, most recently, Amazon’s Alexa.
I focus on running operations, building integrations, and ensuring OpenWater customers are well-supported. I enjoy tackling a wide array of business challenges ranging from front line product support and operations to sales and marketing efforts. My core expertise is in software development, building enterprise-level web applications. My hobbies include programming and powerlifting.
