Title: Director, Commercialization Practice
Category: Managing Professional
Education: B.B.A.
Edward is currently a Corporate Growth Strategist and Executive Coach, in the healthcare and environmental industries. He has been a Management Consultant to large Fortune 500 companies as well as many small startup ventures. He began his career with scientific instruments sales to a variety industries including environmental and healthcare. After leaving the sales agency business he entered the consulting business with assignments that included technology transfer with major universities such as UC, Irvine and Carnegie-Mellon Institute of Research. His entrepreneur career began in 1969 as a co-founder of Sci-Med, Inc., which spun out SCIMED Life Systems, Inc. which was acquired by Boston Scientific in 1995. He was an early-on Director of Corporate Development for Medtronic, Inc. assisting in the transition of the Instrument Division from a distributor to a manufacturer of medical devices other than pacemakers.
His community service has been primarily in the environmental field. His international experience included an assignment as the West Coast Representative for Invest In Sweden increasing trade relations between the U.S. and Sweden. He has held board positions with advanced technology companies such as BioMEMS, LLC (Nanotechnology) Board Member/Founder. Most of his assignments were during periods of technology change such as the market entry of computers and information technology to medicine with the founding of a 3D medical education company.