Edward previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Skyview Capital LLC where he oversaw technology strategy, diligence, and oversight for Skyview Capital investments and its portfolio companies. He also co-founded Skyview Ventures and served as Chief Technology Officer at Syncplicity (now Axway), Digital Fuel (formerly a division of VMWare) and NewNet Communications Technologies.

As a visionary leader, entrepreneur and technologist, Edward has created billions of dollars of value and a legacy of industry-transforming technologies. 

He started his career at the Research Institute for Advanced Studies as a principal investigator, building robotics systems for the Space Shuttle. He later invented foundational “data mining” technologies and developed parallel text search systems for Dow Jones and Microsoft while at Thinking Machines Corporation. 

Edward later founded and led Torrent Systems to develop Orchestrate, a parallel processing big data environment, later sold to IBM that forms the basis for their Information Server product (IBM Watson). He has also assembled and led high-performing teams to create pivotal technology companies that he sold to Boeing, Yahoo! and Google.

Edward is a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Spectrum and serves on the External Advisory Committee of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins. He completed his undergraduate degree and graduate studies in Biophysics at the Johns Hopkins University, postgraduate studies at MIT and an MBA at Babson College.