Ed is a Senior Attorney of Exequity. Prior to joining Exequity, Ed was a Principal at Buck Consultants where he led Buck's Technical Solutions and Innovation Team, which is responsible for technical matters impacting compensation, e.g., financial accounting, securities, tax, corporate governance, and institutional shareholder issues.

Ed has worked with hundreds of companies and has extensive experience in all areas of executive and director compensation, including equity and cash incentive plans, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) modeling, institutional investor analysis, accounting for equity awards, tax implications of compensation awards and plans, director pay issues, corporate governance issues related to compensation, and proxy disclosure of compensation matters.

Ed's interest in institutional shareholder issues has led him to create numerous tools to use when implementing and evaluating new equity compensation plans, including summaries of the proxy voting guidelines of significant institutional shareholders, a share utilization calculator/projector, and the Flexible Share Authorization that counts full value shares at a higher rate to help increase a plan’s flexibility.

Ed is a frequent speaker at national, regional, local and industry-specific conferences, seminars and meetings, including The National Association of Stock Plan Professionals’' annual conferences and local chapter meetings, the Practising Law Institute’s Preparation of Annual Disclosure Documents yearly seminar, and the American Bar Association's Section on Taxation meetings. Ed also has written numerous articles on executive compensation matters for professional publications, including Workspan, the Journal of Compensation and Benefits, The Corporate Board and the Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal. In addition, Ed is frequently quoted on executive compensation issues by publications such as Fortune, HR Magazine and Business Finance.

Ed received a B.A. from Juniata College, a J.D., cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law, and an LL.M. (Tax), with honors, from IIT-Chicago-Kent College of Law. Ed is an attorney and an active member of the Illinois State Bar and U.S. Tax Court.