Eric Berk joins Oyster Digital Media’s Board of Directors. He is CFO for Ziff Davis Enterprise, a fully integrated media business employing over 200 people. There he directly managed the sale of the company for $150M to private equity in July, 2007 and its transition to a stand alone entity where he rebuilt the central services (IT including CRM, email, and GL), legal, accounting and finance, banking, insurance, and real estate), post sale. He was also responsible for financial and strategic planning, accounting and transactional processing, business development, and production for ZDE. Mr. Berk first joined Ziff Davis in 1996 and was General Manager for the print, online, and custom publishing initiatives for several of Ziff Davis’s key units from 1999 to 2001.
Between these periods with Ziff Davis, Mr. Berk was was the Chief Financial Officer for IGE, a privately held international software company. Mr. Berk also served as Assistant Vice President, Director of Finance for the Internet/Direct Commerce division of Martha Stewart Omnimedia. Prior to that, he held several key senior financial management positions at Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing and Time Warner.
Mr. Berk holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and enjoys fishing and watching his son play catcher, shortstop and second base in New York City.
