About Ned

Ned Lamont has spent a lifetime as an entrepreneur committed to public service. He has started up and run his own business and was elected to public office four times in his hometown, where he helped to manage the budget through good times and bad.

Ned founded his own company, Lamont Digital Systems, in 1984. Now known as Campus Televideo, the company serves over 200 campuses and over 1 million college students across the country with foreign language, distance learning and cable television services. As a CEO, Ned has set strategic plans, met honest budgets, and negotiated healthcare costs, with a shared responsibility to workers, customers, and investors alike.

A graduate of the Yale School of Management, he has served as a policy member at the Brookings Institution, a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and currently serves as a professor and chair of the Arts and Sciences Public Policy Committee at CCSU, where he has brought business, nonprofit, and labor leaders together to focus on a jobs strategy for Connecticut (more at CTBlueprint.org).

As chair of Connecticut’s State Investment Advisory Board, Ned oversaw the pension assets of our teachers and state employees. As a volunteer teacher, he taught business classes to Bridgeport high school students.

In 2006, Ned took on the political establishment by running for and winning the Democratic nomination for United States Senate on a message that our nation’s fiscally reckless war policy was distracting us from the pressing issues here at home — jobs and the economy, healthcare reform, and energy independence. Tens of thousands of new voters registered as Democrats for the primary.

Ned currently serves on the boards of Mercy Corps, which provides young people with job skills in war-torn nations around the world; Conservation Services Group, which is one of the nation’s fastest growing companies specializing in residential energy efficiency; and Teach for America CT, which focuses on education reform.

Following this tradition of entrepreneurship and public service, Ned filed papers on November 4th, 2009 to form an exploratory committee to explore a potential campaign for Governor of Connecticut.

Ned and his wife Annie have three teenaged and young adult children.