David Tory is the award-winning author of the Stanfield Chronicles.

 

David was born October 23, 1942 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. He was educated at Haileybury College and moved to London in 1962. He joined Unilever’s head office computer department  as a fledgling programmer.

In 1965, he was hired by Honeywell Information Systems as a systems programmer. He was sent to South Africa in 1970 to help setup Honeywell’s new subsidiary in Johannesburg.

He returned to England in 1971 to marry Helen and to co-found a software distribution company, Carus Ag. In 1976, Carus was taken over by a Swiss company, Computer Associates.

David and family moved to CA’s head office in France in 1979. CA, having merged with a US company, its headquarters was relocated to New York. In 1980, David and family moved to the United States to take a senior management position at CA in Long Island, NY.

In 1988, David was recruited to be the CEO of a software company in Boston, Massachusetts, the Open Software Foundation, from which he retired in 1995.

In 1998, he co-founded Broadhow to provide management and Board development services to the non-profit industry in Essex County, Massachusetts. Broadhow was reorganized as the Essex County Community Foundation in 1999. David retired from ECCF in 2011.

Since 2012, David has become an author.

He and Helen live in S. Hamilton, Massachusetts. They are blessed with two daughters, Jemma and Jo, and two granddaughters, Pippa and Rue.

 

David can be reached at: ADavidTory@Gmail.com