Education
University of Western Ontario.
University of Western Ontario.
Is the chair of the Control Trust, which controls the majority of the voting shares of Communications Incorporated. is also the deputy chairman of Communications Incorporated. and is chairman of the Finance Committee, Nominating Committee, and the Executive Committee. He is chairman of Bank, chairman of The Toronto Blue Jays and a director of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment and CableLabs. is Chairman of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball club is a director of the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation and the ONEXONE Foundation. Much of " focus during his almost 20 years with Communications has focused around innovation.
In 1997 he launched wireless data at Wireless and signed a deal making the first carrier anywhere to launch the BlackBerry.
In 2003 under his leadership entered the enterprise business segment under Cable. He deployed packet-cable local telephony services at Cable in Q3 2005.
In 2011 he led the launch of Smart Home Monitoring, the fifth product. In 2013 he will lead the Companys launch into financial services with the launch of the mobile wallet and the launch of a branded cr card.
In 2012 these initiatives contributed over $3.5 billion of revenue to
From January 2003 to September 2009 Edward was President & Chief Executive Officer of Cable Incorporated., which consists of three business units. Cable is Canada"s largest Cable Company offering cable television, high-speed Internet access and residential telephony services. Business Solutions division is a national provider of voice communications services, data networking and broadband Internet connectivity to small, medium and large businesses across the country.
Retail is one of the largest retail chains in Canada with more than 475 stores.
In 2009 Cable generated over $3.8 billion in revenue, over $1.3 billion in EBITDA and had over 14,000 employees. Under his leadership Cables EBITDA more than doubled.
At the end of tenure Cable led the Canadian Cable industry in RGU penetration and ARPU per customer. From October 2000 until December 2002, was Senior Vice President, Planning and Strategy, for Communications Incorporated.
In this capacity, he was responsible for directing and co-ordinating strategic planning and budgeting.
From November 1998 until September 2000, was the Vice President and General Manager of the Toronto region, representing 850,000 customers for Cable Incorporated. In this capacity, Mr. was responsible for financial performance, sales performance and customer satisfaction. His responsibilities included Sales, Marketing, Customer Communications, Call Centre Operations and Technical Operations.
From March 1996 until November 1998, was Vice President & General Manager of Paging, Data and Emerging Technologies for Wireless.
Prior to that he served as Director of Sales for Cable Incorporated., where he was responsible for retail, audit sales and sales administration. graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario and worked for Comcast Corporation in the Philadelphia area from 1993 to 1996 before returning to Canada to work with the family firm.