Bio

Eric is an inquisitive guy, which is helpful when you’re tasked with evaluating new platform investments as well as add-on acquisitions for existing portfolio companies. Equally important to being inquisitive is being respectful of the answers. Eric has a tremendous amount of admiration for the business owners and entrepreneurs that CID works with. He respects their time and their success and makes sure that CID’s diligence process is a reflection of these values. Eric is currently on the Board of Classic Accessories, Giftcraft & Strahman Valves. Eric was most recently a Vice President in Greenhill & Co.’s Industrial Mergers and Acquisitions group in Chicago, where he worked with large industrial corporations to grow their businesses through acquisition. He previously worked in private equity; investing for The Carlyle Group as an Associate, and in UBS’s Mergers and Acquisitions group as an Analyst. Eric received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, where he was a Kelley Scholar.