(1950?-) Co-founder, along with Dave Rossum, of E-mu Systems. The two both grew up in the San Francisco Bay area in the USA. They were acquainted in high school, where Rossum was two years ahead on account of being older. After graduating high school, Wedge went to the University of California - Santa Cruz, where he met Rossum again in 1971, just as Rossum and some friends were starting an effort to build their own synthesizer. Wedge and Rossum co-founded E-mu in 1972, and sold their first few E-mu 25 models that year.