Ed’s career includes positions as a Vice President with SNC Lavalin, and CEO of a Hi-Tech Manufacturing Company and Tier 1 supplier to Cisco, IBM, HP, Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm and other leading OEM’s and CM’s in the EMS sector. Ed spent most of his career with Canadian Pacific Limited (CPL), where he created and led the Management Services (MS) group, one of the largest and most successful corporate internal operations and business consulting groups in North America. In this role he managed, and directed teams completing many hundreds of large scale operations cost reduction and profitability improvement projects, across all operational, functional and business areas. In this role Ed was responsible for initiating some of Canada’s largest operations restructuring projects.  Ed was also Assistant Director of Operational Audit for CPL. Ed was also a Business Operations Analyst for Black and Decker, and an Electronic Engineer for Philips Electronics. Ed holds an MBA from the University of Manchester Business School and an Honors Degree in Applied Physics from the University of Bradford, both in the UK.

Ed currently works on 3 parallel “tracks” of work, including;

i) Training and Education including extensive teaching. Ed is currently a Sessional Instructor in Operations Management at the Schulich School of Business (SSB) where teaches Masters and Undergraduate level degree courses in Operations Management and Information Systems, the Management of Technological Innovation, Business Strategy & Execution, and Change Management to MBA, MSCM, MMgt, and BBA programs.

Ed is also currently teaching the Courses in; Foundations of Business Process Management (BPM); Tools & Techniques of Business Process Management; (TTBPM); and “Organizational Aspects” of Business Process Change at the University of Toronto School for Continuing Studies (SCS) to experienced Managers, Professionals and Technical Specialists, and authored the course text for TTBPM, BPM – A Performance Perspective.

He has designed multiple in-person and online courses at SSB and SCS and received Dean’s commendations and awards for teaching excellence both at SSB and SCS.

Ed has also written and published courses for the Association of Business Management Professionals (ABPMP) and is an internationally noted expert in integrating both the human and technological aspects of business process to achieve bottom line results, and a specialist in utilizing simulation tools both to teach, analyze and improve business and operational performance.

ii) Consulting to private and public sector organizations ranging in size from SME’s to Global corporations; and finally;

iii) Running his own online business as an industrial/commercial energy broker.

When not doing all the above, Ed is a Liverpool FC fan, a keen cyclist, kayaker, cross country skier and avid fisherman.