Edison Labs began in 2007 as an independent product development lab that returns to the model of Thomas Edison’s own labs. Edison Labs was begun, as a place to explore, play, test and develop new technology that is compelling and exciting. Formed with leading technologist with broad background from Bell Labs, Interval Research, Apple Computer, and many start-up Companies.

The staff at Edison Labs were participants in creating the first video games, personal computers, personal Computer Operating Systems, Broadband Communication technology, 1G/2G/3G and 4G wireless communications, digital TV platforms, new forms of microprocessors, DSP, media and parallel processing IC's, new hand-held mobile communicators, and more.

Jaime Cummins, CEO & Managing Director

He founded Edison Labs and has over 25 years of experience creating and deploying new technology that have generated billions of dollars in product sales over this period. He has been a senior technology and business executive at Apple Computer (led the Mac OS group) , Pacific Bell (led the Interactive TV Engineering), Xilinx (led the Reconfigurable Logic R&D Lab) and several start-ups he co-founded and led, including Solitare Group (Video Games) , Digital Creations (Video Games and Video Effects hardware), QuickSilver Technology (Adaptive Computing Machine technology for mobile and embedded devices), Element CXI (Elemental Computing for embedded devices), and Carpe Media (Steaming Media Ad technology) from technology started at Edison Labs. He has been involved in creating the technology that has changed the world of computing for the last 2 decades. When not at Edison he is preparing for the 2010 International Carpet Fishing competition in Iceland (his personal best is a 40kg cod). See Dilbert cartoon.

Owen Rubin, CTO & Managing Director

Owen co-founded Edison Labs with Jaime, and has over 30 years in technology development and management. He started his career as one of the first five software game designers for Atari, and designed coin-operated games for over 13 years for Atari and Bally Sente. Owen also designed both Macintosh hardware and software at Apple. He was Director of Technology for Pacific Bell, where he helped design and build one of the first digital broadband systems in the US. Following Pacific Bell, Owen was hired by Paul Allen to lead Paul's broadband research for Interval Research, where he did research and prototype development on several innovations in digital TV and broadband devices. After Interval, Owen began a run as a technical executive for a number of different start-up companies in application security, semiconductors, digital TV devices, and advertising related technology.

Linnea Kline, VP Marketing & Business Development

She has over 15 years of experience marketing and training development management experience in technology markets. Linnea started her career in the automatic test equipment industry in marketing where she managed trade shows, events and marketing communications (Schlumberger), marketing operations, communications and customer training groups (LTX) and customer relationship management programs (LTX and Credence Systems). She managed course development teams for SUN Microsystems' Internal Technical Training group where she drove through to completion over 200 training courses. Most recently Linnea worked at Adobe Systems where she managed strategic content and learning programs. Linnea holds an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Russ Wetmore, VP Consulting Services

Russ is a 30-year veteran of software development, 18 of those years in managerial or senior executive roles. As a software engineer, Russ was instrumental in seminal work for entire industries: video gaming, operating systems, streaming video, consumer-oriented computers and mobile devices. His work in object-oriented systems and development methodologies were recognized by trade organizations such as OOPSLA. Russ earned three software patents for his ground-breaking work in operating system design, which enabled Apple to more easily automate the new product development process and migrate easily to new processors. His creation for the Apple Newton, Notion—The Newton List Manager was arguably the first best-seller in the mobile device market. It was eventually bought by Apple to shipped on every Newton sold worldwide.

Robert Biczek, VP of Sales

Robert serves as VP of Western Region Sales with more than 18 years of sales management and engineering experience. Robert has extensive experience in solution-based selling of financial, ERP, security, and electronics products and services. Robert's experience includes senior sales management and sales engineering positions at NextSet Software, Aptix Corporation and Cadence Design Systems. And, Robert has delivered sales results for a host of companies as a Partner of Innovative Resources Technology Group, IRTG. Robert holds a masters of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Florida Institute of Technology.

McGruff the Crime Dog

Official crime fighting mascot of Edison Labs renown for his exceptional ability to track down evil doers and criminal malcontents while maintaining his trench coat noir style. I'm McGruff the Crime Dog - world famous for my advice on how to stop crime before it happens, and for my great sense of humor. But seriously, my job is to help people, especially kids, learn how to be safe and make their neighborhood safer.

Something else you should know about me is that I go all over the country to talk to people about how they can take a bite out of crime. So if you see me in your town, come on up and say hi. You can recognize me by my tan trench coat - I never go anywhere without it.

To learn more visit McGruff's site for more info.