Gwen Edwards 
Golden Seeds, Silicon Valley

Gwen C. Edwards combines an extensive track record of innovation with her ability to scale initiatives. Her career has a constant theme of new products and services creation, first at Stanford Research Institute, then in corporate structures, with sales and revenue growth assignments, then full profit and loss responsibility at Bell Canada, Bell Northern Research, Northern Telecom, Pacific Bell/SBC/AT&T, and then as CEO of a venture backed company, She is now as an angel investor, coach, educator, researcher, board member and advisor.

Gwen is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, the female leader focused angel network, She also serves as Board Chair of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a global advisor to the Astia Angel community. She still occasionally consults on innovation with F500, ecosystem leaders, and emerging growth companies, seeking new ways to structure investments and encourage growth. She is a constant supporter of entrepreneurs in their efforts to deliver new products to market, find beachhead customers, and deliver returns to their investors. She blends her experience as an entrepreneur and venture backed CEO with her knowledge of investing to offer unique perspectives of the challenges and opportunities facing entrepreneurs, and how to tackle them. Gwen manages a portfolio of over 25 angel investments.

While engaged in all of her leadership roles, she is passionate about advancing positive social impact, gender parity, and greater transparency in governance. She also seeks ways to structure investments with greater certainty of exit when companies have sufficient revenue growth and traction to warrant these new revenue based structures. She holds BA, MA and MBA degrees.