Eric is a senior product executive with more than 20 years of experience building and scaling technology platforms across healthcare, benefits, banking, and financial services. He currently serves as Senior Director of Product for Health Benefit Accounts at Optum Financial, where he leads strategy for the health savings and spending accounts and digital payment tools that families across the country use to manage their healthcare dollars. Earlier in his career, he held product and leadership roles at other divisions of UnitedHealth Group, U.S. Bank, and BenefitWallet/Conduent.
Eric holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, and recently completed Northwestern Kellogg’s program in AI Strategies for Business Transformation. On the FB4K board, he’s focused on helping turn the organization’s inspiring mission into a repeatable, sustainable model — bringing a product-and-operations lens to the goal of reaching 100 chapters and a million bikes, always with the belief that smarter systems should serve the human joy at the heart of the work.
A lifelong cyclist, Eric knows firsthand what a bike can mean. Some of his most meaningful miles are the ones he rides alongside his son, Doug — an experience that deepens his commitment to the well-being of kids and families. He lives in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, and this year he got back in the saddle for the cause, riding the FB4K Gran Fondo to help put more kids on bikes. His philosophy is simple: every kid deserves a first bike.