Ed Ross
Chief Operating Officer
Ed is a serial intrapreneur and business leader with 30 years of experience creating and scaling new businesses within startups and Fortune 500 corporations. As Mach49's Chief Operating Officer, Ed is responsible for Marketing, Global Expansion, Venture Factory Design, and key client accounts. He makes sure the global teams have all they need to succeed, and is the driving force that keeps everything running smoothly.
Early in his career, Ed joined a leadership development program designed to shape general managers. The approach was simple yet tough: he was thrown into the deep end, leading a team of experts on a subject he knew little about. It was a baptism by fire, but Ed excelled — discovering a real talent for diving into unknown territory, understanding team dynamics, spotting what was working and what wasn't, and charting a path forward.
Throughout his career, Ed has created several first-of-their-kind products and services and has held a wide variety of executive positions in product, business development, operations, and management. He founded Intel’s worldwide IoT Developer business to attract startup customers, and created a mobile solutions business that generated product services for payment, education, healthcare, and industrial verticals. At Palm Inc., he generated $200M in revenue by localizing and launching the company’s WebOS product in international markets. He also created the world’s first VoIP push-to-talk service at Sprint, as well as the world’s first femtocell, improving in-home mobile coverage.
At Mach49, Ed draws on his breadth of skills and experience to steer internal operations and projects, ensuring that teams have the resources they need to do their best work. By blending his passion for learning and venture building with his general management and operational expertise, Ed has developed a unique ability to transform challenges into opportunities for growth. With a total focus on execution, he seamlessly drives internal operations and knows how to get things done.
In 2020, Ed married his partner Erin, a kindergarten teacher from Kansas. In addition to having a lively Jack Russell Terrier named Monster and two cats, Ed and Erin have two children — Annabelle, who is finishing college with plans to pursue a PhD in neuropsychology, and Max, a university student with a passion for baseball. New to being an empty nester, Ed enjoys having more free time now to read, walk the pets, visit the beach, and go hiking. He’s also an OG gamer, and is known for taking his PS4 on long business trips as a way to unwind.
Ed holds a BA from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Rockhurst University.
Early in his career, Ed joined a leadership development program designed to shape general managers. The approach was simple yet tough: he was thrown into the deep end, leading a team of experts on a subject he knew little about. It was a baptism by fire, but Ed excelled — discovering a real talent for diving into unknown territory, understanding team dynamics, spotting what was working and what wasn't, and charting a path forward.
Throughout his career, Ed has created several first-of-their-kind products and services and has held a wide variety of executive positions in product, business development, operations, and management. He founded Intel’s worldwide IoT Developer business to attract startup customers, and created a mobile solutions business that generated product services for payment, education, healthcare, and industrial verticals. At Palm Inc., he generated $200M in revenue by localizing and launching the company’s WebOS product in international markets. He also created the world’s first VoIP push-to-talk service at Sprint, as well as the world’s first femtocell, improving in-home mobile coverage.
At Mach49, Ed draws on his breadth of skills and experience to steer internal operations and projects, ensuring that teams have the resources they need to do their best work. By blending his passion for learning and venture building with his general management and operational expertise, Ed has developed a unique ability to transform challenges into opportunities for growth. With a total focus on execution, he seamlessly drives internal operations and knows how to get things done.
In 2020, Ed married his partner Erin, a kindergarten teacher from Kansas. In addition to having a lively Jack Russell Terrier named Monster and two cats, Ed and Erin have two children — Annabelle, who is finishing college with plans to pursue a PhD in neuropsychology, and Max, a university student with a passion for baseball. New to being an empty nester, Ed enjoys having more free time now to read, walk the pets, visit the beach, and go hiking. He’s also an OG gamer, and is known for taking his PS4 on long business trips as a way to unwind.
Ed holds a BA from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Rockhurst University.
Ed Ross
Chief Operating Officer
Ed is a serial intrapreneur and business leader with 30 years of experience creating and scaling new businesses within startups and Fortune 500 corporations. As Mach49's Chief Operating Officer, Ed is responsible for Marketing, Global Expansion, Venture Factory Design, and key client accounts. He makes sure the global teams have all they need to succeed, and is the driving force that keeps everything running smoothly.
Early in his career, Ed joined a leadership development program designed to shape general managers. The approach was simple yet tough: he was thrown into the deep end, leading a team of experts on a subject he knew little about. It was a baptism by fire, but Ed excelled — discovering a real talent for diving into unknown territory, understanding team dynamics, spotting what was working and what wasn't, and charting a path forward.
Throughout his career, Ed has created several first-of-their-kind products and services and has held a wide variety of executive positions in product, business development, operations, and management. He founded Intel’s worldwide IoT Developer business to attract startup customers, and created a mobile solutions business that generated product services for payment, education, healthcare, and industrial verticals. At Palm Inc., he generated $200M in revenue by localizing and launching the company’s WebOS product in international markets. He also created the world’s first VoIP push-to-talk service at Sprint, as well as the world’s first femtocell, improving in-home mobile coverage.
At Mach49, Ed draws on his breadth of skills and experience to steer internal operations and projects, ensuring that teams have the resources they need to do their best work. By blending his passion for learning and venture building with his general management and operational expertise, Ed has developed a unique ability to transform challenges into opportunities for growth. With a total focus on execution, he seamlessly drives internal operations and knows how to get things done.
In 2020, Ed married his partner Erin, a kindergarten teacher from Kansas. In addition to having a lively Jack Russell Terrier named Monster and two cats, Ed and Erin have two children — Annabelle, who is finishing college with plans to pursue a PhD in neuropsychology, and Max, a university student with a passion for baseball. New to being an empty nester, Ed enjoys having more free time now to read, walk the pets, visit the beach, and go hiking. He’s also an OG gamer, and is known for taking his PS4 on long business trips as a way to unwind.
Ed holds a BA from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Rockhurst University.
Early in his career, Ed joined a leadership development program designed to shape general managers. The approach was simple yet tough: he was thrown into the deep end, leading a team of experts on a subject he knew little about. It was a baptism by fire, but Ed excelled — discovering a real talent for diving into unknown territory, understanding team dynamics, spotting what was working and what wasn't, and charting a path forward.
Throughout his career, Ed has created several first-of-their-kind products and services and has held a wide variety of executive positions in product, business development, operations, and management. He founded Intel’s worldwide IoT Developer business to attract startup customers, and created a mobile solutions business that generated product services for payment, education, healthcare, and industrial verticals. At Palm Inc., he generated $200M in revenue by localizing and launching the company’s WebOS product in international markets. He also created the world’s first VoIP push-to-talk service at Sprint, as well as the world’s first femtocell, improving in-home mobile coverage.
At Mach49, Ed draws on his breadth of skills and experience to steer internal operations and projects, ensuring that teams have the resources they need to do their best work. By blending his passion for learning and venture building with his general management and operational expertise, Ed has developed a unique ability to transform challenges into opportunities for growth. With a total focus on execution, he seamlessly drives internal operations and knows how to get things done.
In 2020, Ed married his partner Erin, a kindergarten teacher from Kansas. In addition to having a lively Jack Russell Terrier named Monster and two cats, Ed and Erin have two children — Annabelle, who is finishing college with plans to pursue a PhD in neuropsychology, and Max, a university student with a passion for baseball. New to being an empty nester, Ed enjoys having more free time now to read, walk the pets, visit the beach, and go hiking. He’s also an OG gamer, and is known for taking his PS4 on long business trips as a way to unwind.
Ed holds a BA from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Rockhurst University.
