Ed Merino is chief executive officer and founder of Office of the Chairman. Ed is a boardroom executive coach whose clients are board chairmen, board members, CEOs, and their direct reports. Key to his coaching is helping executives move from “success to significance.” His clients include Fortune 500 companies in Finance, Media and Entertainment, Banking, and Technology, as well as private and family businesses. For over a decade, Ed has been an adjunct coach with Right Management Consultants, the world’s leading career transition and organizational consulting firm. In this capacity, he counsels with Right Management’s most senior executive clients. He has developed a process that allows executives to authenticate themselves. Some call it “the essential biography”—Ed calls it the “Bio B,” a word picture that describes who you are, not what you have been or what you have done.
Ed has over 30 years of boardroom experience as board chairman, CEO and board member (including public board experience). He also served for six years as director of corporate governance at a “Big Four” accounting firm’s Orange County regional headquarters. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Forum for Corporate Directors, Orange County, and currently serves on the board of the National Association of Corporate Directors, Southern California chapter. He has created a Director Education Roadmap showing executives how to develop a governance education pedigree through programs at Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School and UCLA Anderson School of Business. Ed received a Director Certification from UCLA’s Anderson School of Business’s Directors’ College. He studied mechanical and electrical engineering at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.
Ed has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Orange County Register, Orange County Business Journal, Directors and Boards, Directorship, CIO magazine, Corporate Boardmember magazine and other publications. In addition, he participated in the “Blue Ribbon Commission on Board Evaluation” publication of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
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