Eric joined Executive Sounding Board (ESB) as President in June 1999 when the firm he founded - Corporate Development Associates, LLC (CDA) - merged with ESB. Like ESB, CDA was a middle-market M&A intermediary and consulting firm. Prior to founding CDA, Eric worked at General Electric for nearly 10 years, most recently as CFO for the $200 million European division of GE Silicones. At GE, he also held Corporate posts in M&A and financial planning & analysis, and worked in a variety of financial, strategic planning and corporate development roles in the GE Plastics, GE Appliances and GE Capital divisions. Eric also worked for MBNA America in Corporate Planning and M&A. Eric received a B.S. with Honors in Commerce & Engineering Sciences from Drexel University where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma and Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. He has also completed Executive Programs in Mergers & Acquisitions and Manufacturing Strategy at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, as well as numerous management and financial programs at the GE Management Development Institute. Eric is a board member and past President of the Maryland Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and a board member at Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Central Maryland. Eric also serves on the board of the International Network of M&A Partners (IMAP), where he chairs the IMAP Business Services Industry Group.

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