Dutch national, over 30 years of financial industry experience at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs. He pioneered numerous structured fixed income, credit and tax/ABS products. In 2008, Eric founded Aurum Global Trading an active long/short precious metals fund. On a personal level he has long been engaged in climate change issues and organised events with leading scientists in the field. A supporter of nature preservation projects in Latin America, Romania and Alaska. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Hogeschool Utrecht.