Doug Hickey

Douglas Hickey is currently the Managing Director of Hickey Gryphon QOF. He has more than 30 years of operational experience holding senior-level positions in the telecom, Internet and technology industries. Hickey was named United States Commissioner General at Expo Milano by President Barack Obama in 2014. As Commissioner General he oversaw the creation of a dynamic USA Pavilion that told America’s food security story and activated a global conversation about the challenges of feeding the planet. Earlier, Mr. Hickey was President and CEO of San Francisco-based BinWise Inc, the leading provider of analytics to premier restaurant, hotel and entertainment groups around the world, and before that was Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Hickey was CEO of Critical Path, the leading provider of messaging services to corporations around the globe. He was also President and CEO of Global Center, which became one of the first and largest providers of advanced web hosting and content distribution on the web. He earned his B.A. from Siena College, Loudonville, New York in 1977 and was awarded an Honorary PhD for Sienna College in 2016.