Well Lived

MARTY HOLLERAN holds over thirty years of corporate executive experience and has led multinational companies and fast-growth startups through IPOs and turnarounds. Marty held senior executive and CEO roles in companies such as GE, Thomson Consumer Electronics Sales and Marketing Company, Emerson Radio, Projectavision, InnovAlarm, Electrolux Home Care Products NA, and Genca. Throughout his extensive career, Marty has served as a board chairman of GFR Consulting, on the Board of Regents at Catholic University, and on the board of directors at St. Josephs College. Alongside his son-in-law, Marty founded the Children’s Pompe Foundation which funds the research to find a cure for the rare disease. Currently, Marty is vice chairman of Merryck & Co. Americas and a member of its board of directors. He has mentored CEO’s, C-suite executives, and senior leaders in the telecommunications, food manufacturing, construction, engineering, pharmaceutical, biotech, and energy industries. He and his wife Kathy have three children and seven grandchildren.

Acknowledgments Forewords Introduction The Long and (Not So) Lonely Night Our House My Moral Compass Ship of Dreams Three Kinds of Trouble The Gift That Keeps On Giving On Tour Dreams and the Plans Life Makes for You Showtime! A Promise Made Is a Debt Unpaid That Day Hilltop Manor, Unit 29H She’s the One Shine On In the Army Now A Missing Piece The Greatest Adventure of Them All The Equation of Motion and Other Things I Learned First Steps The Tapestry of Life The Greatest Responsibility, the Grimmest Task The Difference Between a Threat and a Promise Always Smile Begin Again The Opportunities in Anything My German Friend Mr. Holleran Goes to Washington The Ever-Dwindling Breakfast Group “They’re Not Listening to You, Dad!” Judías Verdes Calculating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Sparrow The Most Beautiful Girl in the World Breakfast with a Champion Just Jack The Kid Is All Right A Very Big Stick. And a Good-Sized Carrot, Too The Great Las Vegas Air Conditioner Laser and Light Show Two Worlds Chipper My Big Brother, Jack Kintsugi The Father. The Mother. And The Holy Ghost. I Never Learned the Words to La Marseillaise The Long and (Not So) Lonely Night, Part II What Really Matters A Hostage to the World. Strength to Get Through the Night The Shill The Irishman and the Rebbe A Happy Ending There But for the Grace Uncle Mart Ain’t It Awful Protégés Merryck Code of the Road The Real Me Smile About the Author