Greg Lippman
Founder & CEO

Before founding Groundswell Network 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 work together toward a public school system that truly serves all children. This work has fueled his optimism about the future of public education, especially the opportunity for the alternative school ecosystem to provide great schools for the students that need them the most.

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 was to help students become the first in their family to graduate from a four-year college. Greg also worked for 8 years as an English and ESL teacher. He received his BA in English Literature from Princeton University and his Masters in the Arts of Teaching from Stanford University.