About Us

GroveSite strives to make web-based collaboration easy, fast and affordable
for all types of businesses and organizations, regardless of size.

GroveSite was founded on the knowledge that existing collaboration tools lacked the flexibility, affordability, and responsiveness needed to meet the emerging needs of organizations. With the advent of cell phones, laptops, and widely-available internet access, working teams were becoming more dispersed. Organizations were increasingly looking to form partnerships and strategic alliances to pool talent, move product and ideas, and increase efficiencies. Existing collaboration solutions were complex, expensive and required intensive implementations. GroveSite stepped in to provide an easy, fast, and affordable solution to organizations, regardless of size.

GroveSite is a privately held organization headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona with a satellite office in Boston, Massachusetts.  GroveSite was founded in 2002 by three principals, Thomas I. Selling, Jane Hagen, and Joseph S. McVicker (Left to Right). They bring over 75 years of experience in general management, marketing, consulting, project management, education, and technology development and operations.  Their combined experience has given them the foundation to develop solid technology and provide superior service in a steady corporate environment.

GroveSite Management Team

Thomas I. Selling, PhD, CPA

Founder and President, Grove Technologies

Dr. Selling is a business strategist, technologist, educator, author and CPA. Prior to founding Grove Technologies, he served as Academic Fellow, Office of the Chief Accountant, at the SEC. Dr. Selling has authored numerous academic and practice publications. During 25 years as a business school professor he served as on the faculties of MBA programs at Dartmouth, MIT, Wake Forest and Thunderbird School of International Management. He has produced and led over 150 seminars for business professionals in 15 countries, and has been quoted numerous times in leading business publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Compliance Week. Dr. Selling has a Bachelor's Degree and MBA from Cornell, and a PhD from Ohio State.

Jane Hagen

Founder and VP Marketing & Sales, Grove Technologies

Ms. Hagen's career in providing technology solutions spans thirty years. Jane worked at the Los Alamos Scientific Lab in the 1970s on state-of-the-art systems. She worked as a technology strategist and consultant at a leading management consulting firm in Boston, where she was the first woman promoted to partner. In the 1990s, Ms. Hagen co-founded a technology consulting firm, where she was responsible for marketing and delivering technology services and solutions. Ms. Hagen complements her technology experience with a deep understanding of the challenges of helping organizations adopt and benefit from new technologies. She has a Masters in Management from MIT and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.

Koren Elder

VP of Operations, Grove Technologies

Koren Elder brings a vast knowledge of technology and project leadership to the GroveSite team. For the past 17 years, Ms. Elder has specialized in developing applications focused on improving end-user productivity. She has worked for leading organizations in a variety of industries such as transportation, public services, telecommunications, and higher education. Ms. Elder excels at bringing projects and people together, with the ability to balance both the user requirements and the underlying technology.

Prior to joining GroveSite, Ms. Elder was the Director of Application Development at Thunderbird. Along with supporting and expanding the school's existing web collaboration systems, she led the effort to implement powerful content management technology for dynamic updating of all school web content by non-technical users. Under her leadership, Thunderbird tripled utilization of on-line learning and collaboration with no increase in funding. Ms. Elder received a B.S. in Information Systems from Kansas State University, a Certificate of Advanced Studies from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management and an MBA from the University of Colorado.

Michael McGrath

CTO, Grove Technologies

Mr. McGrath has over 17 years experience in the Information Technology industry with an emphasis on the development of complex business software and web security. He comes from Countrywide Financial where he spent 3 years developing and supporting the Web Authentication System for the Countrywide Financial B2C and B2B websites.

Mr. McGrath has worked for leading organizations in a variety of industries such as Commercial Software Development, Accounting / Finance, Technology and Higher Education. He excels at Web 2.0 application design and development while maintaining a strong customer service orientation.

Mr. McGrath holds a M.S. in Computer Information Systems from Bellevue University and a B.S. in Finance from Peru State College. In addition, Mr. McGrath is a Microsoft .NET Certified Solution Developer.