YIKES - This is john on 5/22/2016 which is more than a decade after this post was created. This page turns out to be the most popular page on this blog so I thought I should put in a little update on John Edelson. Here's what I look like today and what I looked like in 2007 (not quite a decade ago but it's
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John Edelson is the founder and president of Time4Learning. He also provides member support services as well as does the marketing. Often, he cleans the office at the end of the day and helps fix broken web pages. Usually, the broken web pages are due to his "help" with them.
Professional Experience
Current - President/Founder, Time4Learning.com ,
Home Schooling Curriculum, Literacy Vocabulary Program. SpellingCity! Science4Us. WritingCity. Time4Writing. Founder and President.
Various educational and entertainment consulting & investing projects: Prepworks - an adaptive program for teaching algebra or preparing for the ACT, SAT, and other high stakes tests. Vcom3D - SigningAvatars for deaf education. Florida. LearningToday - Standards-based online curriculum for school-based education. Florida.
ARC International. ARK.L Senior Vice President & Founder. Semiconductor intellectual property. London & Florida. 1998-2002. Created ARC as a spin-out from Argonaut with 10 people. Raised $12M, acquired three firms, participated in managing the firm's IPO.
Argonaut Games. General Manager. Videogame and technology development. London. 1996-98. Hired as a “turn-around” manager who transformed a struggling 100 person family firm into a growth-oriented profitable company that successfully went public. Raised $6M in capital. Executive produced Croc, a Playstation game that went platinum. The 3DO Company. Developer Relations & Marketing Director. Videogame platform innovator. California & London. 1992-95.
SGI. California. 1988-92. Product Marketing & Developer Relations. Pioneering workstations for engineering analysis and 3D graphics.
MID Consulting. Paris. 1986-88. Corporate strategy, acquisitions, and diversifications.
Price Waterhouse. DC. 1982-84. Business Consulting.
US Peace Corps. Cameroon. 1980-82.
Other
Board Member, WireSpring Technologies
Board Member, The Cooperative Feeding Program of Broward
Yale College. BA. 1980, cum laude.
Harvard Business School. MBA. 1986.
avid but aging soccer player. sometimes runner. currently in the martial arts (red belt). Father of two.
ARC International. ARK.L Senior Vice President & Founder. Semiconductor intellectual property. London & Florida. 1998-2002. Created ARC as a spin-out from Argonaut with 10 people. Raised $12M, acquired three firms, participated in managing the firm's IPO.
Argonaut Games. General Manager. Videogame and technology development. London. 1996-98. Hired as a “turn-around” manager who transformed a struggling 100 person family firm into a growth-oriented profitable company that successfully went public. Raised $6M in capital. Executive produced Croc, a Playstation game that went platinum. The 3DO Company. Developer Relations & Marketing Director. Videogame platform innovator. California & London. 1992-95.
SGI. California. 1988-92. Product Marketing & Developer Relations. Pioneering workstations for engineering analysis and 3D graphics.
MID Consulting. Paris. 1986-88. Corporate strategy, acquisitions, and diversifications.
Price Waterhouse. DC. 1982-84. Business Consulting.
US Peace Corps. Cameroon. 1980-82.
Other
Board Member, WireSpring Technologies
Board Member, The Cooperative Feeding Program of Broward
Yale College. BA. 1980, cum laude.
Harvard Business School. MBA. 1986.
avid but aging soccer player. sometimes runner. currently in the martial arts (red belt). Father of two.
Is this the same John Edelson who was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon in the early 80s? I think he was in Sangmelima in the Centre-Sud de Cameroon.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very old post. John Edelson is now known by many as BBat50 (Black Belt at 50) and blogs at http://www.BBat50.com
ReplyDeleteQuick update. The latest news on john's business ventures:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.vkidz.com
Note Vkidz was always the corporate name of Time4Learning, it was just not used much. Time4Learning is a Florida dba (ie a registered "fictitious name" is the legal term)