Ed Willis was a soldier, a cab driver, a security guard, a tree planter, an auto glass installer and shop manager, an employee of several bookstores, a house painter, a dish-washer, and a foot messenger, among at least a few other things before buying his first computer.

Since then he has worked as a research assistant at Queen's University, driven a data mining company into the ground and ridden Nortel Networks nearly all the way down. He currently works for another company in telecommunications. Born in NY, NY, he now lives in Ottawa, Ontario.