Rich Edwards

President, Mindspan Systems

Rich has spent over 20 years working with financial institutions on Wall St. and across the world. As product management lead he oversaw the launch of the IBM Watson Developer Cloud, and helped banks & financial service firms introduce and leverage machine learning for data-driven approaches ahead of the market.

Rich Edwards is the CEO of Mindspan Systems, helping community financial institutions transform themselves with data-driven strategies and technologies. His area of expertise is the convergence of analytics, marketing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning for financial institutions.

Rich has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as an engineering officer in the US Army. He and his family currently reside in Raleigh, NC.