Primary Job Title Founder and President Primary Organization 
Vkidz
Location Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States Regions Greater Miami Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Mr Edelson founded Vkidz in his living room in 2003 by hiring a programmer and licensing a software applications that he repurposed for consumer use: this is the start of Time4Learning. He created SpellingCity.com and Time4Writing.com from scratch. The initially programmer hired in 2004 and the first support person hired in 2005 are still with the
company as the CTO and Director of Operations respectively.
John Edelson has a long involvement in visual simulations starting with his years at Silicon Graphics in the late 1980s and early 90s. At the 3DO Company in the early and mid 90s, he was very involved in the generational video game transition from games built on simple algorithms with 2D sprite graphics to games with real-time 3D photorealistic graphics and physics engines.
John Edelson Croc Legend of the Gobos Mr Edelson was the producer on Croc, Legend of the Gobos, a Sony Playstation game that went Platinum. He was the turn-around manager at Argonaut – a 100 person diversified entertainment and technology company in London. He managed it for three years improving quality, growth, and profitability. He He spun-out and joined ARC, a new company in the semiconductor intellectual property industry. Mr. Edelson, as Senior Vice President of ARC, helped grow ARC from 10 to 300 people. Mr. Edelson consulted to Vcom3D, an educational software company for the deaf and hard of hearing and Time2Read, an educational software company providing standards-based online programs to elementary school systems. Mr. Edelson has previous professional experience at The 3DO Company, SGI and Price Waterhouse.
John Edelson has a BA from Yale cum laude and an MBA from Harvard. He served in the Peace Corps in West Africa for two years. As the proud father of three children, Mr. Edelson has a deep interest in improving education through technology.
