Edward Botwinick is an American businessman, investor, and

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entrepreneur.

Biography

Botwinick graduated from Columbia College with a BA in 1956 and the

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with a BS in 1958. Upon graduating from Columbia, Botwinick worked for US Semiconductor Corporation before co-founding Silicon Transistor Corporation. After the company went public, it was acquired in 1963. From 1963 to 1967, Botwinick was President and a shareholder Quantum Inc. He then joined

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as Vice President of high-tech investment research and venture capital. At Goldman, Botwinick, he learned of the opportunity to invest in American Data Systems, the company behind Time-division multipliers. He then invested, and co-founded Timeplex and became Chairman and CEO of the company in 1977. In the next few years, he led the company to launch a number of successful statistical multiplexer products, including the T-1 multiplexers, and made it one of the first companies to use microprocessors in its systems. In 1987,

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acquired Timeplex for $307 million and Botwinick became Senior Vice President of Unisys and President of Unisys Networks. He retired from Unisys in 1989. Botwinick sat on the board of

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and

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, and was a trustee of Columbia University. He currently serves as a president of the Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation.

Personal life and family

Botwinick's father was Benjamin Botwinick, businessman and philanthropist who founded Benjamin Botwinick & Co., a

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accounting firm. His sister, Elaine Botwinick, was married to World Bank president

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References

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