Ed is a seasoned technology leader and innovator. As an early employee at Cisco Systems, Ed helped to grow the company into a multinational technology leader over 12 years, as its Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President of Business Development, and as a board member until 2002. Most recently Ed was Managing Director of Integrated Finance, Ltd., a private advisory services firm and spent five years as Managing Member of Open Range LLC., a private venture firm. Ed previously worked at Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and At SRI International, where he participated in the early design and development of the Internetwork Protocol (IP) model and TCP/IP, packet radio networks and highly distributed information systems. Ed serves on the boards of Yahoo! and Network Appliance and has previously served on the boards of Cisco, Reuters, Redhat, and Symbol Technologies. He graduated from the University of California, Davis with a degree in electrical engineering. |