Greg S. Harris

Harris was born West Trenton, New Jersey.^[2] His family moved to Morrisville, Pennsylvania, when he was 10 years old. ^[2] He graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in history in 1989, and earned a Master’s in history and museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program at SUNY Oneonta.^[3]

Harris was a senior executive at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum for 14 years.^[1] Harris co-founded the Philadelphia Record Exchange in 1985 with Jacy Webster, a notable retail outlet which specialized in hard-to-find vinyl records.^[4] He also worked in the live music business as the road manager for Ben Vaughn.^[5][6]

Harris joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (HOF) in 2008, starting out as vice president of development; he was named president and CEO in late 2012 and started those roles in 2013.^[4] Harris has expanded programming at the HOF, partnering with more traditional museums such as New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2019 to create a gigantic collection of musical instruments and photographs to accompany them.^[7] During the COVID-19 pandemic, the HOF expanded its educational outreach and put more of its programming on YouTube where they were able to reach hundreds of teachers daily.^[8]

Harris was instrumental in planning an expansion of the HOF scheduled to break ground in 2022.^[9]