Bio

Ed Olkkola is a Managing Director of Teakwood Capital. His career has spanned a wide range of executive-level positions in marketing, finance, information technology, strategy, product and corporate development, and professional investing. Previously, Ed was Senior Vice President, New Products and Business Development for A. H. Belo Corporation. He focused on strategic investments in media and technology companies and developing an enterprise-wide product innovation process. Prior to A. H. Belo, Ed was a General Partner at Austin Ventures where he established the hardware/systems investment practice, focusing on communications systems and semiconductor investments. Ed received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Massachusetts, holds an MBA from Northeastern University and completed the Compaq executive leadership program at Harvard University.