WILTON MANORS, FL, December 04, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to honor Edward Jarvis with inclusion in Who's Who in the World. An accomplished listee, Mr. Jarvis celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Mr. Jarvis is an industry-leading expert on executive compensation research and analysis currently serving as the managing director of Main Data Group, a compensation and management strategy data reporting software. The company's offerings include a subscription-based corporate governance tracking suite and tools for tracking executive and board pay details, chief executive officer pay ratios, severance and benefits metrics. Mr. Jarvis draws on more than three decades of experience in financial services, data analytics and business consulting to offer clients a unique perspective on planning for the financial futures of their organizations.
Understanding the field as a vector through which accounting, tax, security laws and human behavior influence human resource decision-making, Mr. Jarvis considers his initial interest in the specialty to be a result of his drive for evidence-based solutions. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from New York University, a Master of Business Administration in accounting from the University of Chicago and an ABD from New York University.
Concurrent with his position with Main Data Group, Mr. Jarvis is a managing director of Pearl Meyer LLC. In this capacity, he focuses on the development and analysis of proxy databases to create valuation and modeling tools for use in client advisory. His work with Pearl Meyer built upon his experience with Mercer, where he served as the global director of executive compensation data, research and publications from 2011 until 2018. Mr. Jarvis led the redesign of the company's existing central proxy database to consolidate and expand its functions, providing significantly more robust in-house data analysis capabilities and refined the firm's operating procedures into state-of-the-art valuation procedures.
Prior to joining Mercer, Mr. Jarvis was a Principal at Towers Perrin, where he consulted corporate clients on technical matters of due diligence, proxy disclosure, and equity valuation in mergers, acquisitions, and bankruptcy cases. Following this appointment, he accepted a strategic management role on a project to integrate and redevelop analytic tools for the firm's executive compensation practice after the company merged with Watson Wyatt. Mr. Jarvis' career included early roles as a corporate finance research consultant at McKinsey & Company and a licensed Series 7 and Series 64 assistant portfolio manager at Bernhard Management Corporation, forming the foundation of his specialized financial expertise.
Mr. Jarvis has contributed chapters to several industry-leading management and compensation guidebooks, including annual editions of "The Year in Executive Compensation," from 2001 until 2007, and has provided editorial work on countless others. He attributes much of his success to simple hard work, and places an emphasis on educational attainment in all its forms, counseling others that efforts applied to study in any discipline will often pay off in unexpected ways. Throughout his own varied course of study, Mr. Jarvis was named as a Fulbright fellow at the University of Vienna, and was presented with several awards from New York University, including the Elaine Brody Price and Hannah Voorhees Prizes, and a Dean's Dissertation Fellowship.
Greatly interested in the variation and sociological aspects of executive compensation, Mr. Jarvis has noted the impact of regulatory or statutory changes on compensation and corporate culture. A passionate supporter of the arts, he is a member of the Friends of the National Zoo, the Friends of the National Arboretum and the Woodmere Art Museum in his birth city of Philadelphia, where he endowed the annual William Joseph Coverley-Smith juried prize. He is the sponsor of two perpetual awards for students at Drew University, and endowed the William and Margaret Jarvis Choir Fund at Saint Thomas Episcopal Church in Rochester, New York, underwriting an annual performance in their memory. Looking toward the future, Mr. Jarvis aspires to transition from an executive role toward more creative pursuits, while remaining active as an analyst and consultant.
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