Michael Kennedy II has been with Merrill Corporation for 18 years in various technology, project management and leadership positions. During his tenure at Merrill he has been involved in developing Document Management solutions for the Corporate, Investment Banking and Law Firm communities globally; currently he is Regional Director for DataSite in the northeast region.  Michael is one of the visionaries behind Merrill’s push to move the corporate due diligence processes from a purely paper oriented environment into an electronic medium, leveraging the technological advances of the past decade.  Michael holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Finance from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and lives in Maine with his wife and four children.