After selling his second generation family residential and office furniture rental business of which he was CEO to Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Corporation several years ago, Ed is now a family business advisor and mediator. Ed has diverse business management and entrepreneurial expertise in the retail, real estate, and energy management businesses.
His consulting practice focuses on family business succession planning, governance and conflict management as well as business structure and process development.
Ed’s areas of expertise include:
Strategic and succession planning
- Coaching sibling teams and other successors.
- Mediation and conciliation.
- Meeting facilitation
- Cost control
- Job accountabilities and compensation plans
- Leadership development
- Organization and restructuring
- Management including sales and marketing, operations and administration.
He is a member of the Family Firm Institute and the Association for Conflict Resolution. He received his Mediator training through the Bar Association of the City of New York, The Center for Mediation in Law and New York University's Mediator Training Program.
Ed lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side with his
wife, Karen, fifteen-year-old daughter, Aliza and six
year old son, Leo. He has Bachelors and Masters Social
Science degrees from Columbia University and has been
active in several progressive business organizations including
Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, Business for
Social Responsibility and Independent Business for America.
