Director, Fielding Graduate University’s Media Psychology and Social Change Graduate Program in collaboration with UCLA
Media Psychology Doctoral Faculty, Fielding Graduate University
Dr. Hare is the Director of Fielding Graduate University’s Media Psychology and Social Change Graduate Program (in collaboration with UCLA) and on the Media Psychology doctoral faculty. He focuses on Political Psychology, the visual display of information and the application of social media, virtual environments and mobile applications to the Comparative Identity and Branding of Cities, States and Nations. He is also founder and CEO of Peer English Networks (PEN) where a small group of scientists and engineers develop digital literacy solutions for distribution over wireless and virtual networks. He consults worldwide with government agencies and private organizations on the creative use of social media and virtual environments.
Over two decades, Garry has founded and/or held senior management positions with companies creating rich media content and enabling technologies. These solutions usher in new forms of virtual education and communications. He was President and CEO of Amiga, Inc., Executive Vice President of Into Networks with worldwide responsibility for Broadband Media, President and COO of OZ.com, the creators of Helsinki 2000 (the first virtual world) and the Intel virtual museum project, located in Reykjavik, Iceland and San Francisco California. Garry was founder and CEO of the award winning digital publisher, Fathom Pictures Inc., specializing in sports and education simulations. He was founding Managing Director and CEO of Philips Media Europe on behalf of Philips N.V. As head of this European digital publishing company he built management teams to support the creation and distribution of digital products throughout Europe. He has advised companies such as LucasFilm, the Griffin Group, Philips N.V., Ericsson and Apple Computer, among many others, on new media content creation and strategy. Garry has held faculty positions at INCAE (an international campus of The Harvard Business School and The Harvard Institute of International Development), The University of Washington Graduate School of Public Policy and The University of Southern California Graduate School of Public Administration. He began his career at Walt Disney Imagineering and holds a Ph.D. in Organization Behavior and Development from the University of Southern California.
Garry is affiliated with The American Psychological Association, The Broadcast Educators Association, CTIA, The National Association of Broadcasters, The Surfrider Foundation, The World Affairs Council, The Commonwealth Club, The Environmental Forum and others. As a producer, his work has been acknowledged with the Cindy Award, 5 InVision Awards, the NEVI, CDIA and Paris Super Show awards as well as Best Consumer Product at Japan’s Flower and Green, among others. He is a frequent speaker on Innovation, Media and Identity at conferences around the world. Recent conferences include: MILIA, The Forbes New Economy Conference, The Conference on Disruptive Innovation, The American Film Institute, The Sedona Conference on Technology and Education, the Edinburgh Conference, Personal Technology Outlook, the World Affairs Council, the London Conference on Interactive Media, CES, MipComm, CTIA, The Advanced Center for Computer Studies, The Screen Actors Guild and others. Multimedia Producer Magazine selected him as one of the World’s Top 100 Producers.
