Edward "Ed" Colligan (born March 4, 1961) is a former

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and

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of Palm, Inc. which was acquired by

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in 2010. Colligan now is a small business investor, serves on a number of boards, and advises start-up companies. Colligan was president and COO of Handspring prior to the Palm/Handspring merger in 2003. Before Handspring, he led the marketing campaign at Palm, Inc. that launched the Palm family of PDAs and

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s. Earlier in his career, he served as vice president of strategic and product marketing for Radius Corporation. He graduated in 1983 with a

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from the

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. In March 2022, Colligan joined the renewable energy asset management company Low Carbon as Head of Americas. The company was founded by Roy Bedlow, a former colleague of Colligan from Palm. Colligan and his wife/partner Bobbi Burns are co-founders of Central Coast Angels (CCA), an angel group providing early-stage financing to innovative companies located in the California Central Coast region. Colligan's eldest brother John "Bud" Colligan was a co-founder, CEO, and chairman of

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1961 births American computer businesspeople Living people Palm, Inc. University of Oregon alumni Private equity and venture capital investors Place of birth missing (living people) Businesspeople from the San Francisco Bay Area 20th-century American businesspeople {{US-private-equity-bio-stub