Biography
Rachel Happe (@rhappe) is a co-founder and principal at The Community Roundtable, a company dedicated to advancing the business of community. The Community Roundtable collaborates with clients to develop proven, practical strategies for better engagement. Clients rely on The Community Roundtable’s models, research, and networks to take their communities to the next level.
Rachel co-founded The Community Roundtable to support business leaders developing their community, collaboration, and engagement strategies. Clients, including AMEX City Year, AAAS, EA, Ciena, the Canadian Medical Association, and the World Bank, benefit from Rachel’s ability to make sense of abstract trends and her ability to see the implications that technical and operational decisions can have on people and processes.
Rachel has over 25 years of experience working with emerging technologies, including enterprise social networking, e-commerce, and enterprise software applications. Rachel has served as a product executive at Mzinga, Bitpass, and IDe and as IDC’s first analyst covering social technologies. She started her business career as an analyst at PRTM.