Eric Spangler

In his role as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Eric Spangler provides leadership to the entire network of NHA schools to improve student achievement by implementing engaged learning that is supported by fully integrated technology.

Eric has been serving student technology needs in education for over 25 years. Through supporting rapid, sustained growth at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), Eric led teams that helped power remote and hybrid learning for an initial cohort of 300 students to surpassing 90,000 per year. Through progressive leadership roles at UMGC in delivering proprietary Student Information Systems, Learning Management Systems, and virtual cybersecurity computing labs, and later implementing numerous commercial, innovative cloud-based solutions, Eric gained a continued passion for utilizing technology to help students and teachers succeed.

Eric left the D.C. Metro area for Michigan to join ProQuest, an educational technology company that powers research in academic, corporate, government, public and school libraries around the world with unique content and software solutions, including rich academic databases, and technologies that connect people with vast information. While at ProQuest, Eric led a team that provided technology infrastructure, services, and operations for over 25,000 customers and tens of millions of educational students and researchers.