Peter Eddison co-founded Reid Eddison in 1997 after spending 25 years in the technology industry as software developer, marketer, executive, and entrepreneur. A co-founder of both Cybus Systems and Mobius Software Limited, Peter was later Vice-President Engineering Commercial Systems Division, at NABU Manufacturing, where he managed a large multi-disciplinary hardware and software development team.
In 1983, Peter and three other NABU executives started Fulcrum Technologies, where Peter served first as the company’s Vice President of Marketing and then as Vice President of Strategy and Business Development. During this time, Fulcrum grew to be the acknowledged leader in the emerging full-text information retrieval software market, with worldwide revenues of approximately $50 million. Fulcrum was acquired by PCDOCS/Hummingbird in 1997.
At Reid Eddison, Peter focuses on helping clients develop sound strategic thinking and implement clear, focused, and actionable plans. He also collaborated closely with former Reid Eddison partner Wendy Kennedy to develop “So What? Who Cares? Why You?”, a series of tools to help potential entrepreneurs articulate the value of their ideas, and delivered workshops to hundreds of scientists and engineers in Canada, the US and the UK.
From 2001-2006 Peter was on extended assignment as President and CEO of AutoSkill International Inc, a developer of literacy intervention software for the K-12 market.
Peter serves on the board of advisors of the Queen¹s School of Business MBA program, and was a founding board member of the Algonquin College Technology Marketing Program and of Zone5ive, the technology marketing forum of OCRI. He has served on the boards of several Ottawa-area technology companies, and has been a frequent judge for the Wes Nicol Entrepreneurship Award.
Peter graduated from Queen's University with a degree in economics and mathematics and undertook graduate studies in computer science. He was the first winner of the Lovelace Prize in Computer Science and also received a Queen's Tricolour Award.
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