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His biomedical research work in the 1980’s in protein structure and function was published in journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Biochemistry.

An avid inventor, Edward holds over 500 patents worldwide and has over 1,200 patents pending.

At Intellectual Ventures, he serves as the chief technology officer, setting strategic technology and new business models for the company, and was responsible for expansion into Asia.

At Microsoft, Edward managed projects relating to Web platforms, semantic web technology, intelligent operating systems, adaptive user interfaces and artificial intelligence.

He co-founded many Microsoft teams including Windows NT, Microsoft Research, mobile and consumer products, and web services. He is one of the world’s top 12 inventors by patent count, having over 1200 issued patents in fields ranging from social media and energy to materials science and healthcare technology, licensed by hundreds of startups and multinationals around the world.

Through that experience, Edward learned much about the inefficiencies of innovation around the world, and now is at Rhizome Network applying these hard lessons toward making a better system for global innovation. 

 

Edward’s vision quest has taken him to many places. Edward was Chief Architect at Microsoft in the 1990’s managing internal R&D strategy and helping start dozens of product groups as well as Microsoft Research, and also was at NeXT and Apple Computer.

He was Founder at Intellectual Ventures, the largest invention fund in history, as President growing it to $7B assets under management, 1000 employees in 11 countries, and $980M in revenues, and as CTO expanding the fund innovation network to over 100 countries and 100 universities, and delivering over a dozen spinout companies.

Before joining Microsoft in February 1990, Edward founded the Deep Thought Group, working on neural network chips for learning and parallel computation. Since then, he has tried nearly every approach to innovation, with “careers” in academic research science, startup serial entrepreneurship, multinational R&D executive management, global fund management, innovation advisor, and as an inventor.

His first inventions were in electric field-based biomedical particle sizing and Fourier Transform IR spectroscopy when he was a teenage lab rat.