11 Facts About Ed Esber

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Ed Esber served on the boards of companies that introduced the first hard disk add on card for PCs, the first MP3 player, the first DVR and the first tablet computer.

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Ed Esber later earned a MS in electrical engineering from Syracuse University while working with IBM in 1976.

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Ed Esber then went on to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School, in 1978.

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Ed Esber was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest of eight children.

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In 1979, Dan Flystra recruited Esber to run worldwide sales and marketing for Person Software.

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Ed Esber was a founder and CEO of a Computer Toys company called Creative Insights and the CEO of SoloPoint, a telephony products company.

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Ed Esber was a founding member in 1997 of The Angels Forum, a professional, Silicon Valley based group of angel investors.

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Ed Esber is a member of the management team of The Halo Funds.

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Ed Esber is currently helping the State of Utah continue its explosive growth by serving on the Utah Capital Investment Corporation, the Utah Technology Initiative Advisory Board and past member of the Utah Small Business Growth Initiative Board.

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Ed Esber serves as the Chairman of the Utah 1033 Foundation which provides financial support for the families of Utah law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty and the Summit County Sheriff's Citizen's Advisory Board.

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Ed Esber currently sits on the boards of PanTerra Networks and is co-chair of the emeriti trustee committee of Case Western Reserve University.