Gregory Lippman
Founder & CEO
Groundswell Network
Greg Lippman is the founder and CEO of Groundswell Network. Before founding Groundswell in 2023, Greg established the Campaign for Highest-Need Students, a national coalition of education leaders who are successfully tackling some of education’s most intractable challenges and are animated by the opportunity to elevate excellence and break through the obstacles and disincentives that thwart progress and working together toward a public school system that truly serves all children. Greg spent over 22 years leading innovative charter schools, most recently as the founder & CEO of ACE Charter Schools in San Jose, a unique network of middle and high schools focused exclusively on serving struggling students. Prior to launching ACE, Greg was the co-founder and founding principal of Downtown College Prep (DCP), the first charter school authorized in Silicon Valley, whose mission is to help urban students become the first in their family to graduate from a four-year college or university