Edmund W. Schuster is a prominent figure in the academic and business worlds, with experience in university research, administration, and corporate management in the consumer goods industry. Schuster holds a Bachelor of Science in Food Technology from The Ohio State University, a Master of Public Administration in Management Science from Gannon University, and certification in Executive Development - Supply Chain Management from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He also studied Multiscale Materials Design in Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he served as a Short Term Lecturer and worked in the Langer Lab at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. In addition to his research and teaching experience at MIT, Schuster served in a variety of roles there, including Affiliate, Advisor, Research Engineer, Director and Research Associate of the Affiliates Program in Logistics, and laboratory participation in Manufacturing and Productivity and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, among others. He also has experience in the industrial sector, having served as Corporate Manager of Operations Planning at Welch's and in Production Management at OSCAR MAYER FOODS. Schuster is currently the Industrialist at E. W. Schuster Macro Industries LLC, and formerly worked as a Publisher there. He is also a former Advisor at Iotatoi.