Ed Ring

Editor Edward Ring has over 20 years experience in business and financial management, primarily with start-up and early stage companies. From 2007 through July 2010, while working for AlwaysOn Media, Ring designed and programmed their highly successful "GoingGreen" conferences, which draw clean technology entrepreneurs and investors from around the world. Ring was CFO, then CEO, for Upside Magazine in the 1990's. He was acting CFO for VentureOne in 1998 when it was sold to Reuters. Ring was CFO for Play Industries in 1999-2000, the first company to develop and deploy technology for desktop digital video production and internet video broadcasting. In 2003, Ring was Director of Strategic Planning for Anuvu, one of the first companies to build a prototype fuel cell vehicle. Currently Ring consults for various clients in politics and media.

From 1995 through 2009 Ring was the founder and editor of www.EcoWorld.com, an online environmental magazine reporting on clean technology and the status of species and ecosystems. In May 2009 Ring sold EcoWorld to a Southern California investor.

In 1998, Ring was involved in the formation of Trees Water & People, an NGO that supports reforesting throughout the tropics, where he is still active as a director. Ring has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from UC Davis, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Southern California.