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Research and development is, arguably, one of the most exciting aspects of the tech sector.  Technology firms that have diverse interests invest quite a bit of money in research into emerging technologies or fantastic ideas and development of new products.  While a Chief Technology Officer of a firm that specializes exclusively in creating niche products through an extensive research and design department might seem like an incredible job that would satisfy the tinkerer’s urge so many engineers and scientists have, it is hardly a mindset that makes for running a company with the bottom line in mind.  Such companies require management that fosters such a creative CTO, while still focusing on business interests enough to keep the company profitable.  For Raytheon BBN Technologies, the parent company of radical gadget-maker Digital Force Technologies, the executive who effectively straddles the fence between economics and pure science is Ed Campbell.

Ed Campbell is the acting President of Raytheon BBN Technologies and he remains the logical choice for the Board of Directors to approve as President when they confer on the matter.  Having devoted his entire professional management career to Raytheon BBN Technologies, Ed Campbell has effectively proven his leadership abilities at the company.  At least as important, since assuming the role of acting President of Raytheon BBN Technologies, Ed Campbell has effectively managed the more than five hundred engineers the company employs, while still meeting the needs of the diverse companies that contract with the company.  Campbell is, in many ways, exactly what a company like Raytheon BBN Technologies needs; a man who knows how to run a business, but has worked in the research and development branch of the tech sector long enough to understand how such a department actually works.

Having attended Northwestern University in the early 1980s, Ed Campbell began his career deeply interested in science and technology.  He graduated from Northwestern in 1984 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Technology.  Armed with that degree, he entered the workforce and made his way through unmemorable, entry-level positions in the tech sector.  Determined to work for something more, Campbell joined BBN Technologies in January 1995 as a Department Manager of the Distributed Systems & Logistics Department.  Shortly after he had his first taste of a management position, Ed Campbell decided it was time to go back to school!

While holding down his management position at BBN Technologies, Ed Campbell applied himself to the Greater Boston Executive Program, an intensive management training course through MIT’s prestigious Sloan School of Management.  When he finished that executive training course, Campbell applied what he learned and in 1999, Ed Campbell was promoted to an executive-level position.  At that time, Ed Campbell advanced to become the Vice President, Deputy General Manager of BBN Technologies.

In early 2004, Ed Campbell was promoted again, this time to Executive Vice President.  While he only recently assumed the mantle of (acting) President, it is hard to imagine that any other executive at Raytheon BBN Technologies knows the company as well as Ed Campbell does!

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