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Cody Merrill

Founder & Partnerships Director

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex · 1 connection

King's Compass

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About

I founded King’s Compass to blend my passions for golf, luxury, and experience design to help fundraising and sales professionals cement lifelong friendships with their most elite clients. Apex clients have been wined and dined the same ways for decades, and the classic schmooze playbook now feels transactional and tired. At King’s Compass, we design the most exclusive and memorable golf-centric bonding experiences where relationships form naturally through unadulterated fun. We take golf networking to its logical extreme, stacking the most priceless elements of the game, hospitality, and culture to create memories that will be retold in boardrooms, country clubs, and cocktail parties for decades. People don’t tell stories about the 5th time they sat in a box at the Kentucky Derby. They do tell stories about the first time they had dinner with a major champion and played Scotland’s finest courses with professional golfers. They tell stories about flying private with their buddies, riding with a chauffeur who serves the royal family, and staying in palatial accommodations like the Kinross House Estate. Our offerings include: -UK golf journeys to the world’s greatest courses, paired

Experience

Founder and CEOKing's Compass
May 2025
Midcon Markup Podcast FounderMidcon VC
Nov 2023 to Apr 2025
Venture ExecutiveCortado Ventures
Oct 2022 to Jun 2024
Entrepreneur In ResidenceEarthX
Jun 2020 to Dec 2021
COOCareExpand
Oct 2018 to Dec 2018
Vice President of StrategyMetaclinic
Oct 2016 to Sep 2018
Financial AnalystSouthwest Laboratory
Apr 2016 to Sep 2016

Education

Southern Methodist University
BBA in Finance BS in Economics
2009 to 2013
University College, Oxford
Study Abroad History
2012 to 2012
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
General Course Finance and Economics
2011 to 2012
Wall Street Training Program
Financial Modeling
2011 to 2011