Mr Edward David Silver

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  Ed Silver
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  Ed Silver
  
  Partner Email Ed Phone +1 212-845-9893 x801
  
  Mr. Ed Silver is an accomplished senior executive who is especially adept at understanding the specialized intricacies of complex hospitality technology systems.
  
  Ed was most recently President of The Silver Group, Inc., a successful technology strategy & advisory firm, leading him to be part of the formation of Hudson Crossing. Formerly, Ed was co-founder, Vice President of Technology and Operations, and Chief Operating Officer of Lodging.com, one of several entrepreneurial online businesses, including Travelbase.com, Seniorcare.com, AVweb.com and Kidscamps.com. While at Lodging.com, he also served as the primary technologist and designer of the site's online booking systems, managed the Lodging.com product development team, operations, and technology infrastructure.
  
  Following the completion of the sale of Lodging.com to Cendant, Ed was recruited to remain as the Vice President of Technology and Operations for Cendant's Hospitality and Leisure Division. In this role, Ed handled software and product development, financial operations, technology operations and call center operations management for the hospitality-related brands of Cendant Travel Distribution Services (TDS) including, NEAT Group Dynamic Packaging, Lodging.com and the Cheaptickets.com hotel division. During his tenure, Ed was responsible for allocating over $140 million in total capital across the various TDS brands and divisions.
  
  Ed's areas of expertise include online booking systems, merchant technologies and yield and settlement systems.
  
  Ed has a B.A. in religion and philosophy from Syracuse University.
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  Ed Silver Chairman

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  Edward D. Silver, firm president, assumes personal responsibility as the chief strategist for every client. When needed, he taps into his rolodex of experienced professionals with whom he has personally worked with and trusts - offering his clients the power of his collective network's experience and expertise.
  
  This network includes chief technology officers, engineers, software architects, product specialists, project management resources, technical writers, system administrators and developers in a variety of languages. With this customized team approach, no project presents challenges that can't be solved.
  
  Profile: Edward D. Silver is The Silver Group, Inc.'s president and founder. With more than 15 years experience in business, Silver embodies the spirit of entrepreneurial success rounded out by a foundation of skills developed from utilizing technology and operations to grow and support business goals.
  
  In 1994, Silver and his business partners Bill and Carl Marbach, co-founded InterNetwork Publishing Corporation which launched Lodging.com, one of several entrepreneurial online businesses for the Boca Raton, Florida-based company, including Travelbase.com, Seniorcare.com, AVweb.com and Kidscamps.com.
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  Silver was co-founder, vice president of technology and operations and chief operating officer of Lodging.com. He was also the primary technologist and designer of the online booking systems used to run the site. In addition, he managed the Lodging.com product development team, operations and technology infrastructure.
  
  After building the business for eight years, in 2002 Silver and his partners brokered a deal to be acquired by the Cendant Corporation, which at the time was a public company trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CD, with a market cap of around $17B.
  
  Following the completion of the sale of Lodging.com to Cendant, Silver was recruited by the company to stay on and become the vice president of technology and operations for Cendant's Hospitality and Leisure Division.
  
  In this role, Silver handled software and product development, financial operations, technology operations and call center operations management for the hospitality-related brands of Cendant's Travel Distribution Services Division (TDS) including, NEAT Group Dynamic Packaging, Lodging.com and the Cheaptickets.com hotel division.
  
  Managing over 75 staff members in multiple locations including Florida, Denver, Chicago, and Israel, Silver specialized in the inner-workings of complex hospitality technology systems including, online booking systems, merchant technologies and yield and settlement systems.
  
  Prior to founding The Silver Group, Inc., Silver was promoted to Vice President of Technology Strategy and Planning for Cendant's TDS Division which was recently renamed Travelport after being acquired by The Blackstone Group.
  
  Reporting directly to the chief information officer for TDS, Silver provided each business unit with technological guidance for the creation and management of their technology strategies and plans. He also ensured, on behalf of the CIO, that each unit's technology and product development plans fit into a specific strategic framework for all of TDS.
  
  Silver was also responsible for allocating over $140M in total capital across the brands and divisions, as well as the allocation of all capital funds throughout TDS. All of this required him to possess an in-depth understanding of the inner-workings of each brand and intricate technology infrastructures to ensure each system could trade inventory and properly interact with every system across each brand.
  
  Silver has a B.A. in religion and philosophy from Syracuse University and was working on his PhD in religion and philosophy at the University of Virginia when he started InterNetwork Publishing Corporation. He currently resides in Evergreen, CO with his wife, Holly.

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  Think twice, says Ed Silver.
  
  Silver is cofounder of Lodging.com, a discount hotel-reservation service based in Boca Raton, Fla. Silver runs the company's Web site on an in-house server, and as recently as two years ago, the company was using five T1 lines. But as its Web traffic grew, the company suddenly discovered it was using 60% of the site's bandwidth. Soon the first complaints about slow response time began trickling in. Silver called his Internet service provider, WorldCom's UUNet, and put in a request for a T3 line. The ISP gave him an estimate of a 90-day turnaround.
  
  HOSTING HORRORS: Disastrous telecom service almost pushed Lodging.com's cofounders, Ed Silver and William Marbach, over the edge.
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  Silver discovered that even though UUNet could provide him with high-speed Internet service, the local phone company - in this case, BellSouth - would have to install the requisite fiber-optic lines on Lodging.com's street. "This was back in the time when dot-coms were going through the roof," Silver says. Silver called BellSouth almost daily for a service update, and as the months went by, Lodging.com's customers were devouring more and more of the site's existing bandwidth. As a stopgap, Silver had an antenna installed on the roof of his one-story building and paid another local provider some $3,000 a month for wireless Internet service. That provided a big chunk of bandwidth, but because the wireless service was new, "it frequently conked out. I was fighting with the wireless provider and fighting with BellSouth and UUNet to get the T3. It was everything I could do to stay alive."
  
  After eight months, BellSouth finally came through with the fiber lines, but that still wasn't the end of it. Says Silver: "When they brought the fiber to the end of the street, they said, 'We don't see a pipe. Where's the pipe?' And I said, 'What pipe?'" That's when Silver learned that it's the building owner's responsibility to lay the pipes that carry lines in from the street. Lodging.com's leased office space had no such pipes in place. Silver called the landlord, who declined to bankroll the work. So Silver found a contractor who would bore a hole from the street to his building (cost: $5,000). As his staffers stood outside watching, 10 men drilled a tunnel that broke through the floor of the company's phone room. Electricians then wired the BellSouth fiber to the company's office suite.
  
  In October 2000, 10 months after his first call to UUNet, Silver flipped the fiber switch. Today he pays about $14,000 a month for his T3, a fee that's typical. But the whole experience ate up time he could have otherwise spent growing his company. Perhaps nothing could have hastened the phone company's agonizing pace. But Silver does have a few choice words regarding the landlord: "When we leave, we will put cement in this pipe so no one can use it.

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  Ed Silver Chairman

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  Joining Mr. McCormick are five industry veterans who bring a wealth of industry experience and unique skill sets to the team: Tom Christopoul (chairman), Tom Botts (partner), Andy Hermo (partner), George Roukas (partner), and Ed Silver (partner).

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  Ed Silver Chairman

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  Edward D. Silver, president and founder of The Silver Group, Inc., is now a founding partner of Hudson Crossing. According to Silver, The Silver Group's business will merge completely into the Hudson Crossing practice, and his clients will reap the benefits of the deeper service offering from the newly formed venture.
  
  "I am so pleased to be a part of the Hudson Crossing team," said Silver.

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  Edward D. Silver
  
  Hudson Crossing LLC
  
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  Ed Silver, Partner, Hudson Crossing

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  Edward David Silver President
  
  The Silver Group, Inc. 34600 Fox Ridge Road Evergreen, CO 80439
  
  (tel) +1 303-679-1270 (cell) +1 303-513-8760

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