Eric Engler,
Founding Partner
Eric Engler is a senior investment professional with fourteen years of experience investing across private and public markets, and a wide variety of asset classes and industries. He has deep expertise in partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams to build businesses from the ground up, structuring creative financing and opportunistic investments, and investing in distressed and stressed businesses.
Eric is currently a Managing Director at Orangewood Partners, a New York-based private investment firm with a long-term approach. At Orangewood, Eric is involved in sourcing, deal execution and management of Orangewood’s investments.
Prior to joining Orangewood, Eric spent 11 years at Reservoir Capital Group where he was a Senior Managing Director and a member of the Investment Committee. Eric continues to advise Reservoir as a consultant. At Reservoir, Eric invested across the capital structure in a wide variety of industries and was involved in several strategic investments across the investment management space. Previously, he was an investment analyst at D.E. Shaw & Co. focused on distressed and credit opportunities. Eric has served on several board of directors (or equivalent) throughout his career, including ContourGlobal, EOS Energy Storage, ClearCaptions, and Purple/ZVRS.
Eric graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Mathematics with honors from Williams College and received an M. Phil. in Economics with distinction from The University of Oxford.
Eric has a deep passion for restaurants, cooking and wine, and loves running and golf when not with his family.