Edward Granger-Happ, a resident of East Norwalk, Connecticut, is the Chairman of NetHope (www.nethope.org), a consortium of 28 leading international relief, development and conservation nonprofits focused on communications technology and collaboration.
He is the former Chief Information Officer at Save the Children (www.savethechildren.org), in Westport, CT, where he worked for the past decade. During his first year at Save the Children, in March 2001, he presented a paper to Cisco on “Wiring the Virtual Village,” which became the basis for NetHope.
Before joining Save the Children, he was a senior partner and founder of HP Management Decisions Ltd. (www.hpmd.com), a management consultancy, and has held a variety of corporate management positions, to the Senior Vice President and General Manager level, with Wall Street data providers, service and software product companies.
His thirty years of professional experience include all facets of managing information services and high technology businesses, including general management with P&L responsibility, operations, product management, sales, marketing, customer service, human resources management, technical consulting, manufacturing, and both software and hardware development.
In 2008, the Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth appointed Mr. Granger-Happ as Executive Fellow and first CIO in residence for the spring term. Further information on Mr. Granger-Happ’s work at Tuck may be found on his Blog at http://granger-happ.blogspot.com .
He is a recognized thought leader in the NGO sector and the author of numerous articles, presentations and publications, including the chapter on the future of IT in the NTEN book Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.
He began his career as an Assistant VP, Equity Research at the First Boston Corporation. Mr. Granger-Happ is a graduate of Drew University where he also did graduate work. He is also the founder and editor of The Fairfield Review, Connecticut’s first on-line literary magazine. Further information on Mr. Granger-Happ may be found at: http://www.fairfieldreview.org/hpmd/EGHprofile.nsf/ , his current Blog at eghapp.blogspot.com and his LinkedIn profile at LinkedIn.com