Ed Eskandarian

Ed Eskandarian is the retired former Chairman and CEO of Arnold Worldwide Partners, a global advertising agency headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Over the course of his career, Ed built and sold two major advertising agencies. The first was HBM Creamer, which was sold to a British agency in the late 1980s, and the next was Arnold, which became the 15th largest agency in the US and was sold in the late 1990s to Havas, a French agency. Ed stayed on at Arnold as CEO for another 10 years and led the agency’s growth to over $2 billion in billings. Ed continues to be active as both an investor and Board member at Arnold.

In addition to Banyan, Ed serves on the boards of Fireman Capital Partners, a private equity company, Fahlgren Mortine, an advertising agency, and Relevant 24, an Internet startup. 

Ed is also a member of the Board of Trustees for two major New England medical centers, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Lahey Clinic.

Ed received a BS in Engineering from Villanova and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.