Gregory Fell is a general partner in The Investors Collaborative, a Boston-based venture capital group. He is the former chief strategy officer at Crisply, an enterprise SaaS company that pioneered the algorithmic quantification of work. Previously, he served as vice president and chief information officer of Terex Corp., a global manufacturer of industrial equipment.
Before joining Terex, Fell spent nearly 20 years with Ford Motor Company. He started as a developer, and worked his way through a variety of management roles supporting the global Engineering and Manufacturing functions of the company. He has domain expertise on CAD/CAM/CAE systems, lean manufacturing, and control systems.
Fell is a graduate of Michigan State University, and spent several years on staff in the College of Engineering as a Senior Research Programmer and Instructor.
Fell is active in the CIO community. He is the former Chairman of the Fairfield Westchester Society of Information Managers, a former Board Member with Junior Achievement, and has mentored high school students through the First Tee Program.
His book, Decoding the IT Value Problem (Wiley, 2013), is used widely by CIOs to calculate the economic value of IT projects.