Ed Gehres, Jr. is a business executive, attorney, and published author with over three decades of experience across technology, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, transportation, and entertainment. He holds a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law and is licensed to practice in multiple jurisdictions. He is the author of Acquire Before You Exit: A Practical Guide for Strategic Growth, Improved Business Valuation, and Maximizing Your SMB's Exit Price Through Mergers and Acquisitions (2024). Ed currently runs Navvee, LLC, a boutique business advisory and law practice based in Las Vegas focused on mergers and acquisitions and advising businesses on how to properly structure and scale their operations.

Ed has spent more than three decades solving complex operational and systems problems for organizations in more than a dozen industries and of every size - from early-stage startups and family-owned businesses to Fortune 10 corporations. His career has included US military service, Big-5 consulting, C-suite executive leadership, general counsel roles, and strategic consulting engagements in which he designed and delivered enterprise-scale solutions for some of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. That operational perspective - built over thirty years of diagnosing how systems actually work, where they break down, and how to fix them - is what drives the structural, implementation-focused approach that distinguishes this paper from the policy proposals that have preceded it.

MidVox Policy Group was borne out of Ed creating multiple solutions to complex national, structural problems, and his belief that the cost of continued inaction was too high to keep those ideas at the breakfast table.