Ed is the founder of Weave Social Finance and oversees the firm’s overall strategy and operations. Ed brings over 25 years of experience in community investment. Ed founded Weave Social Finance in 2012 after 8 years with Greenline Ventures (formerly a division of GMAC Commercial Holdings and Capmark Finance Inc.), an investor, lender, and Community Development Entity. He participated in some of the earliest deals funded by the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program in early 2004. Ed has deep experience building capital stacks and sourcing, underwriting, structuring, and closing real estate and project finance transactions, and in evaluating impact. Ed has facilitated over $400 million in mission driven investments.

In late 2014 Ed founded Impact Charitable, a 501c3 nonprofit offering donor advised funds that are 100% invested for impact. In 2020, Ed helped found the Left Behind Workers Fund under Impact Charitable, which raised over $25 million to provide assistance to workers impacted by the pandemic but ineligible for Federal aid. In 2020, Ed seed funded and launched the Colorado Housing Accelerator Fund (CHAI), for which Weave serves as sponsor and investment manager.

Ed has a BS in business administration from Samford University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. He currently serves on the board and as the chair of the credit committee for the Colorado Enterprise Fund.