Primary Job Title Senior Advisor, Boston & Founder Primary Organization 
HarbourVest Partners
Gender Male
Ed Kane is a senior managing director of HarbourVest Partners, LLC and a founder of the Firm. He is responsible for overseeing U.S. and non-U.S. partnership and direct investments. He joined John Hancock's corporate finance department in 1979 and co-founded Hancock Venture Partners in 1982, which later became HarbourVest Partners. He serves
as an advisory committee member for several U.S. and foreign private equity partnerships, including funds managed by Candover Partners Limited and Charterhouse Capital Partners. Ed has also served on the Boards of three public companies: Xylogics, AI Corporation, and Mutual Risk Management Ltd., and is a Trustee of the Mystic Seaport Museum.
He was previously a Major in United States Army Intelligence where he trained in electronics and telecommunications and graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College. He held a real estate brokers license for over 20 years in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and spent four years in the Real Estate Financing Department of the New England Merchants National Bank.
