Prior Roles
- Plan for Demand: Practice Manager of Supply Chain Planning for clients including Diageo, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Foster Farms, Cabot Industries and American Girl
- Cadbury
- Kraft Foods
- Unisys
- Snapple
- Numetrix
- Atrion International: Vice President of R&D
Award
- IBF Award for Excellence in Business Forecasting & Planning
Prior Roles
- Recognized thought leader in demand planning and S&OP and is CEO and co-founder of the consultancy NorthFind Management
Education
- Graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management
- Member of the 2019 Management Excellence cohort at Harvard Business School
- Member of the Harvard Business Review’s Advisory Council
Industry Involvement
- Long-term contributor to the IBF’s body of knowledge, with a specific focus on forecasting metrics, decision making, and behavioral science
- Author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller for his book, Histories of the Future: Milestones in the Last 100 Years of Business Forecasting
Eric is a predictive analytics and business planning innovator, author, and speaker. He is the Director of Thought Leadership at the IBF. Prior to this he worked as the Director of Demand Planning at Escalade Sports, Director of Demand Planning at Berry Plastics, and Director of Demand Planning & S&OP at Tempur Sealy International. In 2016, he received the Excellence in Business Forecasting & Planning award from the IBF. He is an IBF Advanced Certified Professional Forecaster (ACPF) with over 20 years of experience. Eric is a visionary in his field, a frequent speaker and panelist for many executive forums and professional conferences and has written numerous articles in publications such as The Journal of Business Forecasting and APICS Magazine. He is also the author of the books Cultural Cycles and Predictive Analytics for Business Forecasting & Planning.