Gene Zimon

Hi, I'm Gene Zimon, president of EDGE Advisers and Manager of JAZFund, LLC.

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Gene is an active Angel investor, having invested in over 75 early stage companies since 2009. He assisted many of these companies serving as Executive Chairperson, Director or Advisor . Currently he has approximately 35 active angel investment in his portfolio but is transitioning future investments towards later stage companies. He has a background in technology and finance gained from serving in executive management positions at NSTAR, Oracle, Boston Gas and Wang Laboratories. Leveraging this has led to an investment focus in technology and technology enabled businesses.

SVP and CIO at NSTAR

August 2001 - July 2009

Gene retired from NSTAR in July, 2009 where he was SVP and CIO for eight years. Gene was brought into NSTAR because the existing systems had been destabilized due to significant changes brought about by Year 2000 remediation, a merger of two utilities and significant regulatory changes. After stabilizing the existing systems, Gene led a transformational upgrade and modernization of the application systems portfolio and the technical infrastructure that enabled NSTAR to achieve top quartile performance regarding customer service metrics and financial performance. This was accomplished while continually driving efficiencies in internal IT operations such that the IT cost/revenue ratio was in the top 20% among utilities.

VP Business Development at Oracle

September 2000 - August 2001

In 2001, Gene worked for Oracle as VP of Business Development for Utilities. During his 10-month stint, Gene trained the sales and support staff on Utility Operations, developed the Oracle Utility strategy and worked with the sales force to rebuild relations with their customers at the CIO level. As a result, sales to utilities increased dramatically. Gene also developed the application footprint which catalyzed several subsequent acquisitions and laid a basis for the establishment of the currently highly successful Oracle Utilities application suite.

President at EDGE Advisers

July 2009

EDGE Advisers is a consultancy that is focused on accelerating the introduction of new technologies in mid to large size organizations. Services and market segments include: Work with early stage companies to gain market traction for their product by assisting in: - Business development and go-to- market strategies - Organization and management development and placement - Technology strategy - Introduction to potential customers - Obtaining capital to fund operations Work with venture capitalists to identify market opportunities, potential investments and to provide advisory services to them and their portfolio accounts. Work with government and non-profit organizations to foster innovation and use of new technologies. .

Manager at JAZFund, LLC

July 2009

JAZFund, LLC is a personal private equity investment fund focusing on early stage companies engaged in the following areas: - User data management and security - Digitization of paper records in retail transactions - Smart Grid Communications and data management - Technology enabled medicine

member at Walnut Ventures

VP and CIO at Boston Gas

From 1996 to 2000, Gene was VP and CIO of Boston Gas where he totally re-architected and transformed the entire systems environment. This included the implementation of a totally integrated work and asset management system and a highly advanced mobile communications platform that enabled real time dispatching and status reporting by all field crews. Having a highly configurable and plug and play architecture enabled Boston Gas to quickly combine operations and achieve synergy savings from three completed acquisitions. When Boston Gas was acquired by Keyspan in 2000, many of the Boston Gas systems were adopted by the acquirer.

IT Director at Wang Laboratories

As Director of Business Systems for US Operations from 1983 to 1992, Gene was responsible for driving all the system and process changes as Wang transformed itself from a hardware company to software and services company and reduced employment from 30,000 to 6000. In 1992, Gene was recruited by the CIO to take over worldwide systems architecture, IT planning and data management. When Wang decided to split into a software and service company, Gene was responsible for defining and implementing the system strategy which split the company into two autonomous businesses. Gene was then named CIO of the Software business.

Boston University

1970 – 1974

Economics

Concentration: MS in Econmics and PhD coursework

Tufts University

1966 – 1970

Economics

Concentration: BA in Economics

Avid traveler. Enjoys playing, coaching and watching sports with current interests in golf, tennis and basketball.