Ed Stanford

Ed Stanford has spent over 40 years in educational publishing. He was president of two of the three largest higher education publisher for over twenty years. He was president of what was then the Prentice Hall College Division (now Pearson) from 1984-1994. From 1994-1997, he was president of St. Martin’s College Division as it was merged into what became Macmillan College Publishing. All of that experience was “pre-digital.” From 2000 to 2011, he was president of the McGraw-Hill Higher Education Group, with the last six of those years “in education and technology,” dating the real traction and meaningful development of things-digital to about 2004-5. He was deeply involved in the development of digital strategies and digital product, including the work that led to McGraw-Hill’s learning management platform (Connect) and to their assessment products.