Ed grew up in Queens and attended high school in New York City with basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabar, then Lew Alcindor, and he has a B.A. in Psychology from St. John's University.

He spent his business career in media publishing working with such notable organizations as Conde-Nast, Time Inc., and Gannett.  In 1972 he established an independent publishers representative company in the midwest representing a variety of national and international print media groups, guiding early companies venturing into the worldwide web and eventually heading up the advertising for Foreign Affairs, the public facing magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations and their digital properties.

In another universe, back in the 80s, Ed was the weekend voice playing top hits of the day on WIVS, a local AM radio station in the Chicago suburbs very similar to WLNG in that it was also owned by a local media celebrity.

Ed is retired, lives in East Hampton and has four grown children with growing families of their own thriving in different parts of the country.