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Ed has been the officer in charge of merger operations for the firm since 1977. His extensive merger and acquisition experience includes successful repetitive interactions involving every major facet of multi-million dollar transactions in a wide variety of technical and non-technical industries. A frequent speaker on the subject of mergers and acquisitions, he is also the author of four books; including "How to Successfully Sell Your Corporation" and "Trust in Business and Other Transactions: Who and When." He spent nine years with Texas Instruments in key positions in finance, engineering, business planning, line marketing, and general management. This experience primarily involved developing, presenting, and implementing a large number of business plans for high growth electronic products and businesses. He has an in-depth computer background covering micro through large scale computers. Previous work experience includes IBM (marketing), Continental Illinois Bank (computerized portfolio analysis), and Whirlpool (engineering). He has served as Secretary, Chairman of the Technology Group, Vice President (twice), and President (twice) of M&A International, a very select international organization of investment banking firms. During this organization's annual meeting in Puerto Rico attended by 31 member firms, he was voted "Dealmaker of the Year" following 15 minute presentations by each of the six finalists to the competition. In conjunction with a joint program involving Bill McDonald of Capital Alliance, this award was won again following a presentation at the annual meeting in Amsterdam. He is a licensed Securities Broker/Dealer and a licensed Real Estate Broker. He holds an MBA with a major in finance from the University of Chicago and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University where he was selected for the Omicron Delta Kappa national scholastic/leadership honorary, serves on the Entrepreneurship Advisory Council, and is a visiting lecturer on the subject of mergers and acquisitions. He is on the faculty of the Business Leadership Center at the SMU Cox Graduate School of Business where he teaches "Effectively Negotiating Merger and Acquisition Transactions," "Trust in Business and Other Transactions: Who and When," "Deals 101," and "Deals 301." Based upon student evaluations, he has received The Business Leadership Center's Teaching Excellence Award twenty-one times, the largest number of awards received by any instructor. His formal education includes 12 graduate level courses in finance. He has been quoted in Business Week articles, has provided expert testimony in the field of mergers and acquisitions, and he has been selected to be listed in Marquis' Who's Who in Finance and Industry since 1978 and Who's Who in the World since 1991. | 