Professional Expertise
As a coach, Eric Lee brings over thirty years of experience as a trusted partner to high-performance leaders across the US, Europe, and Asia. Eric believes that executives — like top performers in any competitive field — elevate and excel when they understand both their foundational strengths and constraints. Clear assessment and seeing enable impactful action and accountability, which lead to transformational growth. Eric’s clients include CEOs, founders, and C-suite executives from early-stage ventures to global, industry-leading companies.
Experience
Eric spent twenty-six years at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a leading private equity firm with over $31 billion in total assets under management. He served as a general partner and co-head of the firm’s Technology investing practice, which represented 50 percent of assets invested, and served on the firm’s Management, Investment, and Finance Committees. At WCAS, his work spanned organizational and leadership development, capital raising, portfolio strategy and execution, and chairing multiple boards of directors. Prior to WCAS, Eric spent four years in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co., advising leading companies on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and strategy.
Currently serving as chairman of the board of Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: “CWAN”) and as a board director at DirectTravel, Eric also serves on the nonprofit boards of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) and BalletCollective. He is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Partnership for New York City (where he also served as a David Rockefeller Fellow). Eric and his wife share two wonderful adult children and live in New York City.
Education
- A.B. – Pre-Medical Studies & Medical Anthropology, Harvard University
- ICF Certification in Leadership Coaching – Georgetown University
- Certification in the Leadership Circle Profile