Board service
An operator’s view from the board table.
Eight directorships — one public company, seven private — and advisory roles to the chief executive and executive chairman of two Nasdaq companies. Candor with composure: direct in the room, supportive outside it.
Directorships
Infodata Systems, Inc.
Public company
Director, President & CEO
2002 – 2005
Governed the restructuring and, with the independent special committee, the strategic-alternatives review.
All-cash sale to McDonald Bradley, Inc. (2005)
Verus Technology Group
Counter-UAS for DoD, the intelligence community and federal law enforcement
Director
2014 – 2023
Served from start-up to a $20M+ net revenue run rate, with programs of record at USMC and SOCOM.
Sold to BlueHalo (2023)
SpotlightTMS (TicketManager)
Enterprise SaaS
Director
2011 – 2020
Nine years of governance and growth oversight — enterprise SaaS strategy, client expansion and integration readiness.
Acquired by Valeas Capital Partners (2025)
Astreya Partners
Global IT services
Director, President & CEO
2014 – 2019
11× enterprise value creation over the hold.
Acquired by Cognizant (2026, $634M)
The Intersect Group
Professional services
Director, President & CEO
2020
Governed the firm through COVID-19.
Revenue and margin improved; new analytics practice
Diamond Mind
Payments and tuition for independent schools
Director
2012 – 2014
Business model, commercial strategy and senior leadership build-out.
Serent Capital growth investment (2014); sold to Education Brands (2016)
DataRPM
Predictive maintenance and machine learning for industrial IoT
Director
2012 – 2014
Board service through the company’s growth stage.
Acquired by Progress Software (2017)
Callis Communications
Regional communications
Director
2002 – 2006
Early-stage growth, scaling and corporate governance build-out.
Acquired by C Spire (2014)
Executive advisory
Called in by sitting chief executives and chairs.
2025 – 2026
Marchex, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHX)
Advisor to the Executive Chairman
Strategy, capital discipline and AI product positioning through completion of the integration, following the CEO tenure.
2015 – 2016
The KeyW Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: KEYW)
Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer
Corporate strategy and the divestiture of the Hexis Cyber Solutions commercial cyber business.
What Edwin brings to a board
First-hand, not briefed.
Technology and AI governance
Has migrated an enterprise to Azure, retired co-located infrastructure, consolidated five product stacks and shipped agentic AI into a commercial product — and since 2025 has built an agentic AI platform himself. Can tell an AI strategy from an AI press release, and asks about technical debt before it becomes a write-down.
CEO evaluation and succession
Six CEO tenures and two years assessing management teams in buy-side diligence. Knows what the first 90 days should look like, and can tell a board early whether a plan is being executed or narrated.
Margin and capital discipline
Gross margin 50% → 70% and expense run rate $55M → $38M at Marchex; operating expense halved at Everest; Infodata returned to profit with no outside capital. Comfortable pressure-testing a budget line by line without breaking the operating team.
Product and go-to-market strategy
Two repositionings carried through sales, product and disclosure at once — Everest’s on-premise-to-cloud conversion and Marchex’s move to vertical, AI-driven analytics. Can tell a board whether a repositioning is real or cosmetic.
M&A and integration
Sales of Infodata and Everest as CEO, a five-company integration at Marchex, the Hexis Cyber Solutions divestiture at KeyW, and buy-side diligence across a sponsor’s pipeline.
Regulated environments and sponsor fluency
Ran a public company serving classified government programs alongside pharmaceutical and financial-services customers. Two years inside a private equity firm: the reporting cadence, value-creation discipline and exit readiness sponsors expect of a portfolio board.
Board competencies
Where he contributes.
- Strategic oversight
- Technology & AI governance
- M&A and integration
- Financial discipline
- Risk & cybersecurity
- CEO succession & evaluation
- Audit & compliance
- Capital allocation
- Digital transformation
- Product & go-to-market
- Sponsor & stakeholder engagement
- Executive compensation
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