Ed Wears

As COO, Ed drives the team forward in pursuit of client peace of mind, internal efficiencies, and creating a great place to work.

He joined Northland as the EMEA Managing Director in 2011, and was instrumental in fostering the company culture throughout the EMEA organization and the team of local service partners (LSPs). As a result, he and his team increased revenue from US$5 million to $10 million in 4 years.

Prior to Northland, Ed was at Sony Ericsson where he spent 3 years heading change management initiatives and helped reduce spending by €35 million, while increasing governance, internal communications and cost transparency. Prior to that, he was responsible for the management of performance and quality of the Corporate IT Program Management Office. As a Global Program Manager, Edward was responsible for IT infrastructure and software projects across 30 countries while managing up to 40 resources within a mixed matrix organization.

Edward holds a DMS from Kingston University, UK.