Biography
Eric acts as both the President of Agency Solutions and Executive Vice President of Product and Market Strategy. As President of Agency Solutions, he leads the company’s integrated data, media, creative and marketing service businesses.
Eric joined Quad in 2015 to accelerate the company’s transformation by creating Quad’s Agency Solutions offering. Shortly thereafter, his role expanded to include Executive Vice President of Product and Market Strategy, acting alongside the executive leadership team that defines Quad’s growth strategy through product development and acquisition strategies. His efforts led to the acquisition and integration of Ivie Marketing Services, Rise Interactive and Periscope, integrations that, combined with Quad’s legacy creative and production solutions, have evolved into the company’s core media and creative offerings. In addition, he has led the development of Quad’s Data & Analytics offering and global production platform. Combined, all these business units make up Quad Agency Solutions.
In addition to building the Agency Solutions offering, Eric has led the development of In-Store Connect by Quad, Quad’s innovative offering to bring the high performance of online retail media to physical stores through a national network of high engagement digital displays.
Previously, Eric was president of SGK, a global brand experience company and the parent company of Anthem Worldwide, BrandImage and Schawk. He previously co-founded and was the President/CEO of BlueMint Associates, a strategic marketing services agency acquired by SGK. Eric also held senior marketing positions with leading consumer brand companies including Colgate-Palmolive, Clorox and Levi Strauss.
Eric is a board member of Uniting Voices Chicago, a nonprofit organization that empowers young people to become global leaders through the unifying power of music, and The BrandLab, a nonprofit organization that works to increase diversity in the marketing industry.
Eric holds an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a bachelor’s degree in marketing from San Francisco State.
A born-and-raised Californian, Eric now lives in Chicago with his wife, Trisha, and is occasionally visited by his three young adult children.