As a co-founder of Nucleus Partners, Eric is an active investment professional playing a key role in sourcing, reviewing and managing seed and validation stage investment opportunities. Eric has significant early stage investment, finance and accounting, transactional and strategic consulting experience with The Angels' Forum, The Halo Fund and Arthur Andersen.

Eric was the first hired investment professional at The Angels' Forum / Halo Fund and played a key role in recruiting the senior team to manage the organization. As a Principal at The Angels' Forum, Eric managed one half of the portfolio and was responsible for everything from deal origination to portfolio management and liquidation. Eric played an instrumental role in developing the key processes that guided the organization including the investment process and the quarterly reporting and analysis process. Additionally, while at The Angels' Forum, Eric was an active advisor and participant on many of the Boards of Directors of his portfolio companies.

As a Director in Andersen's Technology Corporate Finance Practice, Eric launched the Western Region Internet Practice and through that process advised and assisted clients on licensing transactions, acquisitions, divestitures and private equity financings in the internet and software segments. Eric has been working with and advising early stage technology companies since the early 1990’s.

Eric is an advocate in applying best business practices to the non profit world. As such, Eric serves on the Executive Committee of Church of the Chimes and is a strategic advisor to The Journey, a new church in San Jose. Eric also served on the boards for the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame and Santa Clara County Special Olympics for over three years.

Eric has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from California State University, Fresno, a Masters of Business Administration from Northwestern University and is a Certified Public Accountant.