Edward F. Gibbons, Jr., Ph.D.
President, CEO and Founder
Edward F. Gibbons, Jr. is an accomplished scientific scholar and senior management executive with over 35 years of experience in programmatic and institutional accreditation, operational effectiveness and assessment, and regulatory compliance involving for-profit businesses and non-profit organizations. Throughout his professional career, Ed has developed strategic plans and outcomes assessment strategies that significantly contributed to each organization being able to meet budgetary goals.
During Ed’s career, he planned, implemented and chaired a four-year college’s Middle States Commission on Higher Education Self-Study that resulted in the institution’s initial regional accreditation. He also served on subsequent accreditation committees for the college, and successfully led the college through its Periodic Review which is required of all of the Commission’s accredited institutions. In 2012, Ed served on the Board of Examiners for the regional Baldrige Performance Excellence Program that serves businesses and non-profit organizations in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Baldrige Excellence Framework Program operates under the auspices of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce.
From 2013 to 2016, Ed served as the founding Chair, Board of Directors of the Long Island Family Caregiver Coalition. Under Ed’s guidance, the Coalition established its mission, developed an outcomes-based operational infrastructure, The Coalition’s initial strategic plan was conceptualized by Ed who also served as the Plan’s principal author. The Plan was comprehensive as it detailed six strategic goals, 22 objectives and 99 action items. As a result of Ed’s work for the Coalition, he was asked to serve on the Nassau County Department of Human Services Commissioner’s Advisory Board for the Office of the Aging, and he currently continues to serve on the Advisory Board.
During Ed’s career he has been the recipient of federal and New York State research and program development grants. He has served as a grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and chaired a special study section for the latter agency. He has authored over 20 scientific articles, has served as the senior editor for the State University of New York Press, and served on the editorial board for the peer reviewed journal Zoo Biology. It addition to Dr. Gibbons’s editorial work, he has reviewed articles for a number of scientific journals, and has presented papers at over 40 professional conferences, chaired and cochaired national and regional conferences. He has also chaired symposia and workshops at meetings of the American Psychological Association, Eastern Psychological Society and the New York State Psychological Association.
Dr. Gibbons has had the honor of having his professional biographic statement appear in a number of Marquis Who’s Who publications; including Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in Medicine and Health Care, Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who in America. Ed has served as a judge for Louisiana State University School of Medicine’s Sigma Xi: Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Research Day as well as a judge at the New York City Science and Engineering Fair, New York Academy of Sciences Expo held at City College, City University of New York.