Marv Serhan, a well-spoken and intelligent retired Navy Flight Officer, exudes an intrinsic understanding of how one's morally upstanding character combined with effective communication and leadership skills can create better citizens and therefore a stronger society. His extensive leadership experience in the educational, military, and corporate world uniquely qualifies him to educate business professionals on how to positively influence their respective organizations. By assisting them in developing and implementing policies that support ethically aware business practices in a highly competitive Globalized economy, Marv ensures a solid foundation of productivity and achievement is in place.

Marv spent his aviation career flying in fighter aircraft. A graduate from the Naval War College and Navy Fighter Weapons School, Marv's twenty-seven year Naval career culminated as Commanding Officer of Fleet Aviation Specialized Operational Training Group Pacific Fleet, directing a staff of approximately 500 and shouldering responsibility for all aviation-related training on the west coast. His dedication to his men and willingness to work alongside them as part of a team formed a mutual respect that increased the effectiveness of new systems and procedures he created and implemented.

Since leaving active duty in 1997, Marv has worked in the utility, communications, telematics and security industries with Salt River Project/New West Energy, Motorola, Inc., Satellite Security Systems Corporation, IBM, and Hewlett Packard. With IBM, he served as a Business Development Executive supporting their Intelligent Utility Network (Smart Grid) tiger team. With Hewlett Packard, Marv is an Enterprise Account Manager where he is responsible for account management of strategic utility clients in HP's Global 1000 organization. He specializes in presenting the Smart Grid Maturity Model (SGMM) to both IOU and public power utilities and assists utility customers in developing a Smart Grid rollout strategy tailored to their specific needs. He holds certifications in energy management (C.E.M.) and sustainability (C.S.D.P.) through the Association of Energy Engineers. He is a past president and executive board member of the AEE’s Columbia River Chapter, and current AEE Region “V” Vice President. Given his background, Marv supports his utility clients in addressing smart grid challenges on both sides of the energy meter.

As an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Diego, Marv teaches a Project Leadership for Global Business course within the School of Business Administration’s Masters of Science in Global Leadership program. As a professional speaker, he speaks on a myriad of topics related to ethics and leadership including those linked to his essay, “The DNA of Ethical Leadership and the Good Society,” the cover story for the John Ben Sheppard Journal of Practical Leadership (University of Texas.)..

Marv holds a Masters of Science degree in Global Leadership from the University of San Diego, and two other post-graduate degrees in disciplines associated with National Security & Strategic Studies (Naval War College) and General Management (Salve Regina University). He has an undergraduate teaching degree from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Marv is a member of the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), National Defense Transportation Association (NDTA), the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) and he is a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) with Toastmasters International.

Marv resides in Camas, Washington, with his family.