Mr. Edmundson began his legal career in 1971 clerking for Chief Judge Jacob Mishler in the Federal District Court (EDNY). He then joined the international law firm of Shearman & Sterling, where he served as the one-man office in Algeria and in the Paris office in a variety of positions between 1973 and 1978.

Mr. Edmundson then joined the law firm of Walter, Conston, Alexander & Green, P.C. where he was a corporate partner for 20 years, specializing in the representation of German- and French-speaking clients doing business in the US.

He served President of Avis Investment Holding Corporation, a startup financial services firm for three years, where he wrote the business plans, helped raise the financing, co- founded the company and was responsible with CEO for financing and relations with shareholders and investors. He was in charge of acquisitions and legal structuring, and made many successful presentations to potential investors and partners.

At HomeView, a private Internet media company, he is the Chief Legal Officer and a principal shareholder, has a primary role in acquisitions, joint ventures, alliances and financing, and is in charge of French-speaking countries.

Throughout his career, Mr. Edmundson has been involved in many acquisitions, joint ventures, financings and commercial contracts for a number of domestic and international projects, often serving as project head for international investment projects.

Mr. Edmundson received an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Purdue in 1967, has studied in Germany and France, and received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. He speaks fluent French and German. He has been married for 29 years to Lorna Duphiney Edmundson, Ed.D., Columbia Teachers College; President of the Association of Vermont Independent Colleges. He has two daughters, Laurel, a first-year medical student at SUNY Downstate, and Katherine, a sophomore at Haverford College.

He was an early convert to telecommuting: he started working at home one day a week16 years ago, in order to diminish the grind of commuting into New York City and to have more time with his family, and has been working from a home office Friday-Monday for the last eight years.