David N. Campbell

David Campbell is a technology executive, corporate board member, and known most widely as Founder and Chairman of All Hands and Hearts, a nonprofit natural disaster response and rebuild organization. Campbell has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of public companies Tektronix, M&T Bank, MRO Software, and Gibraltar Industries; as Trustee at both Niagara University and SUNY-Buffalo; as Chairman for civic organizations including Roswell Park Cancer Institute Council, the Buffalo United Way campaign, the Erie County IDA, and the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce; as well as serving on the board of directors for numerous other corporate and non-profit entities.

David N. Campbell
David Campbell
Born
November 4, 1941

Career

Campbell’s 40 year business background includes positions as President of BBN Technologies of Cambridge, and of GTE Labs in Waltham, as well as CEO responsibilities at public companies Computer Task Group of Buffalo and Xpedior of Chicago.

David Campbell, Chair and Co-founder - Formerly the CEO of Computer Task Group (CTG) and Xpedior, and President of BBN Technologies, Campbell came up with the idea of the business model surrounding All Hands while volunteering in Thailand in the aftermath of the 2004 Sumatran tsunami, using it to first launch Hands On Thailand and making it the structure for the evolution of the organization. Campbell served as the organization's executive director until 2013, when Erik Dyson was named as the new director.

He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from both Niagara University and Canisius College, Citizen of the Year from The Buffalo News, the 2013 Richard Cornuelle Award and the Encore.org 2014 Symetra Purpose Prize.

Personal life

Married 50+ years to Gay Wind Campbell, 4 adult children 9 grandchildren

Father of Piper Anne Wind Campbell

Honors and awards

Campbell earned a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Buffalo in 1966 after receiving a Bachelor of Sciences in Mathematics from Niagara University in 1963.

2019 Speaker US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Disaster Conference

2019 Commencement speaker at Canisius College

2015 Wins the Points of Light Award

2015 St Vincent de Paul medal, Vincentian Heritage Convocation

2014 Commencement speaker at Alfred State College

2014 Encore.org Purpose Prize Award winner

2013 Richard Cornuelle Award for Social Entrepreneurship, Manhattan Institute

2006 Encore.org Purpose Prize Fellow

1997 Appointed by President Clinton as a member of the President's Advisory Council on Critical Infrastructure Protection

1993 Man of the Year, Buffalo News

Bibliography

Books authored by Campbell
  • Campbell, David (2015), All Hands: The Evolution of a Volunteer-Powered Disaster Response Organization
  • Campbell, David (2014), Being There: The Creation of a Cool, Happy, and Surprisingly Effective Disaster Response Organization

Technology Patents
  • Dec 03, 2002, US# 6,490,458 B1 "Portable phone bank"
  • Nov 26, 2002, US# 6,487,284 B1 "Card pay telephone with speed dialing"
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