Sanford "Sandy" David Greenberg (born December 13, 1940) is an American inventor, author, public servant, and philanthropist best known for his efforts toward the goal of ending blindness.
Greenberg attended Bennett High School, then entered Columbia University in 1958 on a full scholarship where he roomed with Art Garfunkel and Jerry Speyer, and was a friend of Michael Mukasey.
With Art Garfunkel's encouragement and help, Greenberg returned to Columbia in September 1961, made up the semester he had lost, and graduated with his class as its president and Phi Beta Kappa.
He spent 1964–1965 at University of Oxford, Linacre College as one of 24 Marshall Scholars named that year, and then received an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1966, while also serving as an assistant professor in its department of public law and government.
[11] In 1968, with $2 million raised from Wall Street financial institutions, Greenberg launched EDP (Electronic Data Processing), a systems-analysis company headquartered in Washington, DC.
[13] As a member of the board of governors of Ford's Theatre, Greenberg played a role in the renovation and 1968 reopening of the site of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
The following year Harper & Row published Greenberg's analysis of Executive Branch decision-making, The Presidential Advisory System, co-edited with Thomas E.
[citation needed] In 1994, Bill Clinton appointed Greenberg to the National Science Board, and in 1996, he became chairman of the federal Rural Healthcare Corporation created by Congress.