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Eric Achtmann Managing Partner

  Eric joined PolyTechnos in 1998 from McKinsey & Co., where he worked primarily in the firm's industrial and financial institutions practices based in London, Munich and Scandinavia. During that period, Eric also served as product development and automotive/defense-aerospace industry expert, following roles in product development with organizations including BMW, Daimler, EADS andBoeing/McDonnell-Douglas (Phantom Works). He also served financial institutions, in M&A and post-merger interation/restructuring activities.

Prior to McKinsey, and in the wake of the 1st Gulf War, Eric founded Petrotech International Ltd., a company developing revolutionary fire-fighting and bioremediation products and services in the Middle East, and, later the U.S., Europe and Asia.

At PolyTechnos, Eric specializes in hardware, including optics, wireless, semiconductors, and cleantech. He has served the boards of a number of technology related companies, including NemeriX S.A., Media Lario Technologies S.r.l., Enigma Information Systems Inc., and PLX, Inc.

Eric received his MBA in finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management and holds engineering degrees from MIT; the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (NATO); the Technical University of Munich; and University of New Hampshire. An Eisenhower and U.S. Air Force Fellow, Eric is a founding member of the MIT Entrepreneuship Society and a Member of the MIT Sloan NVPD Alumni Advisory Board. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Technical University and Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universities in Munich.


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