Edward Botwinick

Edward Botwinick is an American businessman, investor, and IT industry entrepreneur.^[1]

Edward Botwinick
Nationality	American
Education	Columbia University (BA, BS)
Occupation(s)	IT Entrepreneur, investor
Employer	Unisys
Known for	Founding Timeplex
Relatives	James Wolfensohn (brother-in-law)

Biography

Botwinick graduated from Columbia College with a BA in 1956 and the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science with a BS in 1958.^[2]

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 Goldman Sachs as Vice President of high-tech investment research and venture capital.^[1][3]

At Goldman, Botwinick, he learned of the opportunity to invest in American Data Systems, the company behind Time-division multipliers.^[1] He then invested, and co-founded Timeplex and became chairman and CEO of the company in 1977.^[4][5] 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.^[6][7]

In 1987, Unisys acquired Timeplex for $307 million and Botwinick became Senior Vice President of Unisys and President of Unisys Networks.^[1][8][9] He retired from Unisys in 1989.^[10]

Botwinick sat on the board of Duke Cancer Institute and Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, and was a trustee of Columbia University.^[7][2] He currently serves as a president of the Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation.^[11][12]

Personal life and family

Botwinick's father was Benjamin Botwinick, businessman and philanthropist who founded Benjamin Botwinick & Co., a New York City accounting firm.^[13] His sister, Elaine Botwinick, was married to World Bank president James Wolfensohn.^[14][15]