Edward DeMore
Member of the International Council, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Experience
Edward L. DeMore is CEO and a founder of the Boston Digital Bridge Foundation (BDBF) located in Boston, Massachusetts. In collaboration with Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the City of Boston, the Foundation conceived and manages the nationally renowned Technology Goes Home program, a technology education initiative that provides computer training and computers to low-income families in order to help them bridge the digital divide. The goals of the program are to enhance employment opportunities for adults, improve academic performance for children and to increase community collaboration and cooperation within and between Boston’s inner city neighborhoods.
BDBF also created and supports TechBoston, a technology curriculum in the Boston Public Schools, PC Refresh, the BPS’ computer recycling program, Mayor Menino’s Citywide Wireless Initiative and Hub On Wheels, an annual citywide bike ride and fund raiser.
To fund these initiatives, Ed led a team that raised more than $45 million from private companies and individuals which was a catalyst for raising an additional $175 million from the Federal E-RATE program. This enabled Boston to have the most robust public school technology infrastructure of any public school system in America.
Previously, Ed was employed with Xerox Corporation where he held various sales, marketing, and sales management positions during his ten-year career there. In 1977, he left Xerox to start his own private real estate investment and consulting firm that made investments in private companies and real estate projects and advised clients on their personal and business investments.
He has served on the following committees including: Boston Latin School Capital Campaign Steering Committee, Boston Public Schools Technology Advisory Board, Black&White Boston Awards Committee, Ten Point Coalition- Annual Event Host Committee, Black Ministerial Alliance After School Program Advisory Board.
He recently joined the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as an Overseer and has been an Advisor to the UNDP in Havana, Cuba, Light of Africa Foundation, in Cape Town, South Africa and is an Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University and a member of the Belfer Center International Council.
Ed is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He and his wife, Paula, reside in Boston and have four children.
