Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> June 19, 2000
EDWARD H. MEYER is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Grey Global Group. Grey Global Group is one of the largest global
marketing communications companies in the world. A Cornell graduate with
honors in Economics, he joined Grey in 1956 in the Account Services
Department. In 1964, he was appointed Executive Vice President for
Account Services. He was elected President in 1968 and Chief Executive
Officer and Chairman in 1970. In addition to his responsibilities at
Grey, Mr. Meyer is a Director of Ethan Allen Inc. and Harman
International Industries, and a Director or Advisor to a number of
Internet companies. In the public service sphere, Mr. Meyer serves as a
Trustee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Mt. Sinai/NYU Health
System, the American Museum of Natural History and the Lincoln Center
Film Society, among others. He is married with two children. Profile
Grey, just to set the stage for the readers?
Mr. Meyer: Grey originally started business as an advertising agency in
1917,
