Ed Kania

Ed Kania is Managing Partner and Chairman of Flagship Ventures， a firm he co-founded in 2000. Ed has 27 years of experience in the venture capital industry. Prior to co-founding Flagship Ventures in 2000， he spent 14 years as General Partner of OneLiberty Ventures and of its predecessor firm， Morgan， Holland Ventures. From 1983-1984 he served as an Investment Officer at First Capital Corporation of Boston， the venture capital subsidiary of Bank of Boston， and， previously， as Research Associate at Harvard Business School and as General Manager at J. Cunningham， Inc. He is a frequent speaker on venture capital and entrepreneurship. Ed earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Dartmouth College and his MBA from Harvard Business School. While at Dartmouth， he was an All-American Track and Field athlete and a national and collegiate record holder.

Throughout his professional career， Ed has operated both as an investor and as an active partner to entrepreneurs in company building. His direct investment experience covers over 100 companies. In addition， he has been intimately involved in the launch and development of more than a dozen companies as the founding， lead or co-lead investor， and on occasion has assumed operating roles in support of management. Several of these companies are now publicly traded while others have been acquired by significant publicly-traded companies. The total value of the companies in which Ed has participated as founding or lead investor is currently several billion dollars. Among the companies for which Ed has served as an active Director are Adolor （NASDAQ: ADLR）， Alere Corp. （purchased by Inverness Medical）， Anesta Corp. （NASDAQ: NSTA， purchased by Cephalon）， Aspect Medical （NASDAQ: ASPM， purchased by Covidien）， AudioLogic （purchased by Cirrus Logic）， ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals （purchased by Millennium）， Cytyc Corp. （NASDAQ: CYTC）， EXACT Sciences （NASDAQ: EXAS）， Interactive Supercomputing （acquired by Microsoft）， Ontogeny （merged into Curis， NASDAQ: CRIS）， PerSept