Eric Becker

Eric Becker is an American businessperson and co-founder of multi-family office Cresset. Prior to Cresset, he co-founded the investment firms Sterling Partners and Caretta Group.

Eric Becker is an American businessperson and co-founder of multi-family office Cresset. Prior to Cresset, he co-founded the investment firms Sterling Partners and Caretta Group. ==Biography== Becker worked as an intern at Levy Restaurants while a student at the University of Chicago. He started as a secret shopper, with the position evolving into business plan writing and doing financial analyses. Just prior to graduation, Becker co-founded LifeCard, a company that digitized medical records. That technology was developed with the assistance of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maryland. He later co-founded Sterling Partners, an investment management platform. Sterling Partners was co-founded by Becker in 1983¹. He retired as a general partners in the firm in 2015¹ to pursue two ventures. The first is Launch Chapel Hill, a venture lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The other is the Karma for Cara Foundation which was founded in honor of his daughter and provides micro-grants for local community service projects. Becker also founded a series of companies in 2015, including the private investment firm Caretta Group and the real estate investment firm Vennpoint. In 2017, Becker co-founded Cresset, a multi-family office and private investment firm. The firm manages $235 billion in assets as of 2025. Outside of Cresset, Becker has served on the board of numerous non-profit organizations, including Positive Coaching Alliance. In 2025, he authored The Long Game: A Playbook of the World's Most Enduring Companies which was a USA Today bestseller. ==References== ==External links==

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