Eric Emmert

Eric Emmert is a Managing Director at Riverside Management Group, LLC, a merchant banking boutique founded in 1996 that provides corporate finance, private equity, venture capital, and financial advisory services. RMG states that its team has experience across investment banking, venture capital, technology companies, industrial companies, and buyout firms.

Emmert joined RMG in 2014. The firm says he has more than 17 years of Wall Street experience focused on consumer products, industrials, metals & mining, retail, and technology, working as both an investor and an underwriter across the capital structure.

Before RMG, Emmert was a Managing Director and Head of Credit Research at FBR Capital Markets, where he developed the firm's credit research product, introduced trade ideas to clients, and worked with the banking team on new-issue underwriting. From 2007 to 2011, he ran the high-yield group at Allied Irish Bank through the European financial crisis. Earlier, he began his career in commercial lending at Fleet Bank and helped launch Guardian Life Insurance's high-yield group in 2000.

Emmert earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from Tufts University and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business. RMG states that he holds Series 24, 7, and 63 licenses.

• RMG describes itself as working across corporate finance, private equity, and venture capital rather than as a seed-only angel investor.
• Emmert's stated sector focus is consumer products, industrials, metals & mining, retail, and technology.
• RMG's advisory page says the firm has helped industrial, technology, hospitality, and healthcare clients with senior debt, mezzanine, debtor-in-possession financing, preferred equity, common equity, and strategic advice.
• RMG's principal-experience page says the firm has made investments in technology, communications, business services, healthcare, and hospitality.
• Based on Emmert's background in credit research, high-yield, underwriting, and capital-structure work, he appears most relevant for companies where financing structure, credit quality, or complex capital raising is central to the opportunity.