Chase Eckert Bio

Chase has spent nearly 10 years focused on empowering lower middle market leadership teams with executing transformative growth. Prior to co-founding Skylark, Chase served as Vice President at The Riverside Company. While at Riverside, Chase completed 14 acquisitions and exits. With a focus on advising high growth businesses, his partnerships included franchising, healthcare, business and outsourced services, and education technology. Chase has been a guest speaker to Financial Executive International forum, focusing on topics ranging from the maturation of a Chief Financial Officer in lower-middle-market companies to the importance of real-time business insights to monitor strategic execution. Prior to Riverside, Chase began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at William Blair & Company. Chase received a BS, with honors, in Business, Finance from Miami University.