The Merryck Team: Tested, Proven, Trusted

Merryck Mentors’ experience includes:

  • 87
    Countries operated in
  • 210
    New products and
    markets launched
  • 43
    Start-ups launched
  • 437
    Acquisitions directed
  • 84
    Mergers completed
  • 174
    Board positions held
  • 81
    Divestitures completed
  • 74
    Turnarounds executed

My Merryck mentor’s driving mission was to help me succeed. Trusting him gave me the confidence to work through a variety of issues with a very capable and seasoned professional whose only concern was me. The best analogy I can think of is the relationship between a golfer and his caddy. Except in this case, the caddy was a former champion who had played the game at its highest levels.

Brian O’Malley
Chief Executive Officer, Domino Foods

Our Purpose is to mitigate the risks faced by a leader — and an organization — when new roles, opportunities or business challenges arise

The single most important factor in a business's success or failure is the effectiveness of its leadership. Since 1997, Merryck & Co has partnered with hundreds of CEOs and their direct reports to provide trusted, confidential

and individualized on-the-job guidance to key business leaders.

With a focus on profits, performance and personal leadership, we help each of our

clients create maximum value for his or her organization, as well as for his or her development as a leader. We are never remedial. Said simply, we help the best get better.

I was something of a cowboy, running the largest business in the company. My mentor helped me not only as a successful unit leader, but in partnering with the board and peers at the highest levels of the organization.

Division President
ITT

Why former CEOs as mentors?

For a leader to truly excel, he or she must effectively address all aspects of the business: strategic, operational, cultural and personal. That four-way intersection is a place of pressure,

isolation and complexity that no one can fully understand without having lived there.

At Merryck & Co, we carefully select, train

and deploy as mentors only former leaders who have themselves run complex businesses as a CEO, President, or division leader.

When I took on a senior leadership role for a major pharmaceutical company, turbulent market conditions required wholesale change within the business. Merryck’s focus on strategic and operational issues helped me lead to a successful outcome. The perspective challenge that I gained from my mentor helped me attain excellent business results and equipped me for my next role as a public company CEO.

Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Company

As seasoned, confidential advisors, we bring a unique ability to help a leader cut through the chatter.

With regional headquarters in London, New York and Sydney, Merryck & Co's global team helps leaders worldwide face new challenges,

speed their learning curve, and identify and address blind spots. And we do so with no competing agenda. Our critical focus is the

leader's -- and by extension, the organization's -- success.

Merryck & Co. was my secret weapon - it made all the difference to my success.

Barbara Cassani
former CEO GO and Veuve Cliquot Business Woman of the Year