Eric Assouad

Principal, Investment Committee (Venture & Growth Equity)

Eric co-leads the firm’s venture capital and growth equity investments. He sits on the board of BlackPoint Cyber and RedPoint Global.

Before joining WP Global, Eric was a member of the international Technology Media & Telecommunications team at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he advised operations, organization structure, marketing, and post-merger integration strategy. Eric was also previously a Vice President of Strategic Investments and Alliances at FIS, the top-ranked global FinTech company according to IDC (2017 – 2020), where he led strategic investment initiatives in digital, mobile, and big data technologies. Eric has amassed over 15 years of software and network technology experience with start- ups as well as Fortune 500 corporations in cloud, mobile, and network technologies.

Eric earned an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern
University and achieved Beta Gamma Sigma national honors. He also earned a B.S. degree in
Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.