Leadership and Team

Translating vision into reality.

With significant experience across many industries, we have the expertise and the know-how to provide solutions to our clients worldwide.

Leadership

Andrew Higginbotham
Andrew Higginbotham

Managing Partner

Andrew is a 25 year industry veteran and technology industry recognized leader. He has extensive acquisition experience with over $25B of inorganic investment participation and leadership including: (Emarq, Qwest, Savvis, AppFog, Tier3, Datagardens, Cognalytics, MaxCDN, Highwinds, Fireblade...) In addition to extensive integration experience, Andrew has succeeded in driving growth by redirecting and combining businesses in the Cloud and Hosting space. Andrew has held senior leadership positions in both start-ups and Fortune 100 Enterprises. This has included CTO, COO and CEO roles - driving technology, product, sales, marketing, operations and strategy. Most recently Andrew co-founded and launched the Cyber Security startup StackPath, where he served as COO until 2017.

Amy Simonetta
Amy Simonetta

Managing Director

After founding and operating her own successful fitness business, Amy has had an extensive career in healthcare, from hands on clinical roles as a physical therapist to operational and executive management roles, including managing nursing, facility, senior business and administrative employees, processes, payroll, training, budgeting and forecasting. As Managing Director, Amy has responsibility for overall business operations of all practices at Edge. In addition she leads our Healthcare practice working with clients, helping them to transform their operations. In addition to her Masters in Business Administration, Amy holds a Masters in Physical Therapy, from the University of St Augustine and a Bachelor of Science from Boston University. Amy is also an accomplished Triathlon and Ironman Athlete and currently holds official accreditations as an Ironman Coach and USAT Triathlon Coach.

Matt Post
Matt Post

CTO in Residence

Matt has spent his career transforming data communication networks and systems. At CenturyLink, he led both central office transformation efforts and big data transformation efforts to successfully deliver millions of dollars in operational savings while modernizing networks and systems. Matt excels in merging tactical and strategic vision, along with data science and advanced analytics and has patents approved in the combination of these disciplines that to overcome technical, operational and financial barriers in the field of network operations. Matt holds a Master of Information and Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University. At Edge, Matt leads our advisory services relating to network and data services.

Lucas Carlson
Lucas Carlson

Advisor

Lucas Carlson is a cloud thought leader who wrote the bestselling book on the Ruby programming language and a Platform-as-a-Service book for O'Reilly, the largest technical book publisher in the world. Lucas was also profiled in The New York Times best-selling book The Lean Entrepreneur. As a keynote speaker in the technology arena and innovation leader in the cloud space, Lucas has helped many companies discover opportunities for growth. Lucas is best known as a successful entrepreneur founding start-ups like Mog (acquired by Apple) and AppFog (acquired by CenturyLink). As a partner at Edge, Lucas Carlson leads the web development, channel and technical advisory practices. He is also on the Start-Up committee that decides on Investment opportunities for early stage businesses Edge works with.

Julie Merriman
Julie Merriman

Partner (Digital Transformation)

Julie has 25+ years of experience in senior executive technology roles. As a senior executive at the Coca-Cola Company, Julie developed and successfully implemented a multi-Cloud Strategy that was recognized around the industry as bold and highly innovative. In addition to having strong technology background, Julie is also a respected business strategist and advisor, specifically as it relates to the areas of product and marketing. Julie has a degree in Marketing and Masters degree in Technology Management and in addition to her role as Partner, is often engaged as a Senior Analyst where her strong analytical skills coupled with her grasp of technology are a powerful combination.

Cindy Miller
Cindy Miller

Senior Market Research Analyst

Over the past 20 years Cindy Miller has been leveraging marketing research tools and techniques to uncover powerful insights that help companies grow. The data gathering and analytical tools she uses have been developed and refined over the years by working with the world’s best-known brands. She knows the importance of understanding the fundamentals of business performance – the basic constraints under which any company must operate and providing solutions that are easily communicated and actionable. She is skilled at uncovering consumer’s values and motivations, both stated and unstated, and providing insights to guide brand strategies, improve customer experience and optimize external communications.