Ed currently serves as a Harvard Business School Executive Fellow, teaching sales classes to second year MBA students, as Managing Director and CEO coach at 10X CEO, and as a member of the EDB board of directors. Ed served as CEO of EDB for 15 years in addition to serving as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors. As CEO, he drove the development and execution of EDB’s strategic vision and growth in the database industry and steered the company through 54 consecutive quarters of growth, and three successful sales of the company to PE partners, most recently with majority investment in the company from Bain Capital in 2022.
As a veteran of the open source software movement, Ed is a seasoned enterprise software executive who emphasized a technology-first business approach coupled with a highly structured and disciplined sales and GTM model in order to lead the open source data movement. Prior to EDB, Ed served as Vice President and General Manager of North America at Red Hat, where he played a central leadership role in the development of the modern business model for bringing open source to enterprises.
Ed is known for his leadership, passion, relentless energy, and strategic vision. Prior to his business career, Ed honed his leadership skills as a Captain in the U.S. Army where he also trained as an airborne Ranger. Ed earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and BA from Boston University.