Ed Fontana

Ed Fontana earned engineering degrees from the University of Tennessee and Stanford University. He is a product developer, systems engineer and a prolific inventor. He joined the Power Labs at AT&T; Bell Laboratories in 1985, one year after divestiture. Ed and his teams designed and delivered telecommunications products that dominated the market. During his tenure, Power Systems won the Shingo Prize and the Deming Prize for excellence in manufacturing. Ed's unique cross discipline talents have most recently focused on using Google Android to help ordinary people use feature phones to coordinate their lives. Ed holds 23 patents, all collaborative.