Eric Becker

Bio

Mr Becker is a managing partner and cofounder of Sterling Venture Partners. Mr Becker has 18 years of experience building and operating as well as investing in more than 30 companies. He has an entrepreneurial background and has served as an investor, founder, CEO and director. Mr Becker has provided mentoring — CEO coaching, structuring acquisitions, strategic planning and board development — and assistance to many Sterling Partners portfolio companies dealing with rapid growth. In 1983, Mr Becker cofounded and served as a managing general partner of Sterling Capital Ltd. He now leads the business services and industrial technology investments for Sterling Venture Partners and is a board member of three Sterling Venture Partners portfolio companies: Argent Trading, Cognitive Concepts and AnAerobics. Before founding Sterling Partners, he was a cofounder and senior management consultant for LifeCard International and worked in Chicago for the Levy Organization, a real estate and restaurant company, and Grant Partners, a private value-oriented investment fund. Mr Becker currently serves on the board of the Maryland/Israel Development Center, the Port Discovery children’s museum, and the Garrison Forest School. He and his wife, Jill, have served as cochairs of the Society for Excellence in Television for Maryland Public Television. Mr Becker is the past chairman of the Washington-Baltimore Young Presidents Organization (YPO). He attended the University of Chicago. Mr Becker served as chairman of Tango Communications, a Sterling Partners portfolio company, prior to its sale to a public company.