Serial Entrepreneur and Advisor
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
- Current
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- Venture Management Consultant at ERA Management
- Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University
- Past
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- Acting CTO at Inclinix
- CEO at Powerize.com
- Exec VP and Director at Excalibur Technologies
- CEO at ConQuest Software, Inc.
- Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton
- Program Manager at Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- Education
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- The Johns Hopkins University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
- Connections
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- Industry
- Venture Capital & Private Equity
- Websites
Ed Addison’s Summary
Ed Addison is a high-tech serial entrepreneur. He develops the strategy, prepares the funding plan and executes the development of new ventures or products around emerging technologies in life sciences and information technology markets. He is currently working with several clients and a new start up.
In 1989, after spending 10 years working in the aerospace industry at Westinghouse, Ed left the corporate world to become an entrepreneur. His first venture was ConQuest, a search engine company based on Artificial Intelligence, where he was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1994 by the Information Industry Association. After achieving #51 on the National Fast 500, ConQuest merged with Excalibur (now Convera) in 1995 in a $33M transaction. This venture returned up to 70X for it's investors.
After a brief transition period at Excalibur, Ed founded Powerize.com, a business information portal on the web. After acquiring the content services "IBM Infomarket" and "Lotus Newsstand" from IBM, Powerize.com was merged with Hoovers in 2000 in a $22M transaction. Hoovers has since merged with Dunn and Bradstreet.
Ed is also an Adjunct Professor for Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches "online" courses including New Technical Ventures as well as courses in Computer Science and Bioinformatics. He is author of the new ventures book called Leveraging the Horizon about building seed stage companies.
Ed Addison’s Specialties:
Ed Addison advises, launches and raises capital for new high tech ventures in both life science and information technology markets.
Ed Addison’s Experience
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Venture Management Consultant
ERA Management
(Management Consulting industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
New venture development and finance for life sciences, health care, IT and emerging technologies
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Adjunct Professor
Johns Hopkins University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
1986 — Present (23 years )
Teach graduate courses in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Entrepreneurship for Johns Hopkins University
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Acting CTO
Inclinix
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
August 2005 — April 2006 (9 months)
Part time CTO
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CEO
Powerize.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
March 1997 — August 2000 (3 years 6 months)
CEO of Powerize.com. Merged with Hoovers August 2000.
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Exec VP and Director
Excalibur Technologies
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; EXCA; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
Director and officer, business development, of Excalibur (now Convera)
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CEO
ConQuest Software, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1989 — 1995 (6 years )
Founder and CEO of ConQuest Software, Merged with Excalibur in 1995, now Convera.
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Senior Associate
Booz Allen & Hamilton
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1987 — 1988 (1 year )
Director fo AI Lab, also business development
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Program Manager
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
(Defense & Space industry)
1978 — 1986 (8 years )
Ed Addison’s Education
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The Johns Hopkins University
MS, Post Doc , EE, BME, Comp Sci , 1978 — 2002
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CAES , Computer Science , 1984 — 1985
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
BS , EE , 1975 — 1978
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Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
MBA ,
Additional Information
Ed Addison’s Websites:
Ed Addison’s Interests:
entrepreneurship, venture capital, information technology, biotech, flying, university teaching, football
Ed Addison’s Groups:
IEEE, AOPA, FaceBook Profile: Ed Addison, CED
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Valuation in Life Sciences Network -
Powerize.com & KnowledgeLink Alumni -
DukeGEN - Web Entrepreneurship Interest Group
Ed Addison’s Honors:
National Fast 50 (ConQuest Software, 1995)
Product of the Year (ConQuest Software, 1995)
Entrepreneur of the Year, (1994 by IIA)
Lamme Scholar, MIT (1985)
Valedictorian (1975, Mt. Hebron HS)
Ed Addison’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
