Ted Goldstein is currently Vice President of Development Technologies at Apple Computer where he oversees programming languages, developer tools and web application servers. Mr. Goldstein is an innovator in electronic commerce, programming environments and smart card technologies. He holds nine patents related to C++, Java and E-commerce.

Mr. Goldstein brings more than 20 years of engineering and entrepreneurial expertise to Earlybird. Previously, he held the titles of CTO and Vice President of Engineering at The Brodia Group and later he was Vice President of Business and Technology at ActivCard. As Chief Java Commerce Officer at Sun Microsystems, Mr. Goldstein spearheaded development of Java Card, the most popular smart card platform. While at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, Mr. Goldstein was a cofounder and member of the managing team that spun off ParcPlace Systems, the inventors of the Smalltalk system. Mr. Goldstein holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz.