He is Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, founder and chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, and a prolific founder, investor and board member at numerous start-up companies in high technology.
Ed’s portfolio of current and recent companies includes Advanced Magnetics, Inverness Medical, Meditech, Pegasystems, Sohu.com, and Visible Measures.
He is the author of several books on technology and entrepreneurship, and holds four degrees from MIT, including a PhD in Economics.