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Eric Olson (CV) is currently a student at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he is pursuing an MBA with concentrations in economics, finance and strategic management. After business school Olson plans to continue his business development and strategy career and, perhaps, go back into venture capital at some point in the future. Prior to business school Olson was an early part of the FeedBurner team where he worked in a business development capacity through the acquisition of the company by Google in June 2007. Olson has also spent time as a venture capitalist and as an institutional investment analyst.

Outside of going to school and working Olson spends his time drumming, writing, reading, thinking about the “big questions” through the lenses of economics and physics and watching both the Red Sox and the World Rally Championship.

Olson resides on the north side of Chicago with his fiancee.

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Eric Olson (CV) is currently a student at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he is pursuing his MBA. After business school Olson plans to continue his business development and strategy career and, perhaps, go back into venture capital at some point in the future. Olson is also a Massachusetts native and Bentley College alumnus. At Bentley he earned a bachelor of science degree in finance with minor in information technology and graduated magna cum laude.

Prior to business school Olson worked as an Associate at DFJ Portage Venture Partners where he focused on financing and building globally leading technology companies in the Midwest. Before joining DFJ Portage Olson worked in Partner Development at Google and in Business Development for Chicago-based startup FeedBurner, which was acquired by Google in June 2007. (He even co-authored a Harvard Business School case study with Noam Wasserman about FeedBurner.)

In his “spare” time Olson is one half the founding/managing duo of TECH cocktail, which is a semi-annual event for technology entrepreneurs, VCs, programmers and other tech related folks in Chicago, IL, Washington D.C., Champaign, IL, Boulder, CO and Boston, MA.

Outside of going to school and working Olson spends his time drumming, writing, reading, thinking about the “big questions” through the lenses of economics and physics and watching both the Red Sox and the World Rally Championship.

Olson resides on the north side of Chicago with his fiancee.

Eric in the Press:

• 2009 Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 Honoree
• Networking Franchise Ready to Hook Up City Circuits: Washington Post
• Chicago’s vibrant tech community fuels web innovation: Medill Reports
• Next round for TECH cocktail co-founder: Sun-Times
• Next round for TECH cocktail’s Eric Olson: MidwestBusiness.com
• Tech of the Town: Time Out Chicago
• Sun-Times Article on Chicago Tech: Brad Spirrison

Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions on this site are all Eric Olson’s and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts or opinions of his employer. Basically, if he says anything stupid it’s all him.