NY/CT/NJ ACG's 3rd Annual Tri-State Conference  • March 28,2006  • NY Athletic Club

Ed DiSanto

Ed DiSanto, Vice President Joint Ventures, Partnerships and Licensing, Pratt & Whitney 

In April 2003 Ed DiSanto was appointed to the position of Vice President of Joint Ventures, Partnerships and Licensing for Pratt & Whitney.  His primary responsibility in this role is to oversee all aspects of Pratt & Whitney's existing global joint ventures and partnership arrangements.  Prior to this, he served as Vice President of Business Development for P&W from 1997 to 2002.  In this position, his primary responsibility was to supervise the execution and implementation of all of P&W’s acquisitions and joint venture transactions.  

Mr. DiSanto joined P&W as Assistant General Counsel in 1997 after serving approximately four years at the UTC Corporate Office as Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer.   From 1989 to 1993, Mr. DiSanto served as Assistant General Counsel for Carrier Corporation, responsible for legal affairs related to North American distribution, acquisitions and divestitures, and regulatory compliance. 

Before joining United Technologies, Mr. DiSanto served as Litigation Counsel and Division Counsel for AMCA International Corporation (United Dominion) in Hanover, New Hampshire from 1982 to 1986 and then as Assistant General Counsel responsible for acquisitions and divestitures in 1986.   From 1978 to 1982, Mr. DiSanto was a litigator and regulatory attorney for New England Electric System (National Grid) in Westborough, Massachusetts.  Mr. DiSanto is a member of the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of New Hampshire. 

He has a B.S. in education from Northeastern University, Boston Massachusetts (1975) and a J.D. from Boston College Law School, Newton, Massachusetts (1978).    

About Pratt & Whitney:  Pratt & Whitney, a $7 billion revenue company and division of United Technologies Corporation (one of the 30 stocks of the Dow), is a pioneer in flight and in technology.  Pratt & Whitney engines power nearly half of the world's commercial fleet, its military engines power the Air Force's current F-15 and F-16’s and future F/A-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, its rocket engines send payloads into orbit at 20,000 miles per hour, and its gas turbines are used to generate electricity throughout the world .