Ed Roman co-founded and serves as Managing Director and Managing Partner at Hack VC. He is a co-founder of Enterprise Security Syndicate. He is an advisor at Lodestar Ventures. He is also an advisor at BoxC. Served as an executive director at Crosslink Capital. Served as co-CEO at The Middleware Company. He co-founded and served on the board of directors of HackHands. He is also the founder of hack.summit and was the founder and CEO of Ghostfire Games. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Cornell University in 1998. He has worked as an advisor at Seamless Planet.