Merritt Canfield

Merritt Canfield CEO & Executive Recruiter of Meritus Executive Search Excellence, an executive search firm exclusive in the rail industry. She brings ten years of rail industry expertise specializing in multiple freight and passenger rail disciplines as an industry top performer and driver of executive search excellence. Merritt has over 20 years of global award-winning executive search experience which began straight out of college working many years for the largest recruitment network in the world. She has received multiple global awards and recognition throughout her career. Her expertise encompasses the placement of talent including c-suite and executives in Fortune 25 and Fortune 500 companies. Merritt earned a Bachelor of Science, Marketing from Gannon University and a global certification in Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace from ESSEC Business School and completed significant coursework in Human Resources Management from Cornell University and the Fundamentals of Rail Freight Terminal, Yards, and Intermodal Facilities from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Merritt has been a speaker/presenter for many rail industry associations including Railway Age and ASLRRA and featured in multiple publications including Progressive Railroading Rail Prime and Railway Age. Merritt has been a member for years of the ASLRRA Human Resources Committee and the Society of Human Resource Management.