Chris Eckerman

Director
Austin, Texas

Chris Eckerman focuses on early stage technology investments for Hunt Ventures. He joined the Hunt organization in June 2003. At Hunt Ventures, Chris was actively involved with the firm’s investments in Metreos (acquired by Cisco) and SNAPin (acquired by Nuance). Currently, he works closely with several portfolio companies including Alert Logic, CoreTrace, iTKO, and Innography.

Previously, Eckerman was business development manager for Yipes Communications, a start-up network services provider of managed end-to-end ethernet solutions. As business development manager, Eckerman was engaged in various financial activities including investor relations, fund raising and corporate and business development.

Prior to joining Yipes, Eckerman was a financial analyst with the mergers and acquisitions group of SG Cowen Securities Corporation in San Francisco. His experience in the firm included transactions involving domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and divestitures in the technology industry.

Eckerman has a BBA in finance and MBA from The University of Texas at Austin. He is a former gold medal winner in swimming at the World Championships, Pan Pacific Games and World University Games.

May 2009

ceckerman@huntventures.com

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