Location Baku, Baki, Azerbaijan Regions Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Gender Male
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Eric Schaer is a veteran executive with more than 20 years of international finance experience who has advised on over EUR $2 billion of transactions.
During his career, he has specialized in financing, developing, revitalizing, and managing next generation technology services firms. Although based in Azerbaijan, he has worked throughout China, SE
Asia, GCC, CIS, and East Africa.
Eric currently serves as Chairman of Omni World Holdings, a pioneer of investment solutions in the CIS and GCC states in areas of natural resources, tourism and finance.
A supporter of President Clinton’s Millennium Foundation, Eric was previously chosen as an Ambassador for the Foundation’s New York event. He has also served on various advisory boards including: Chairman of the Latin American Chapter of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, Microsoft Advisory Council, Board of Directors of COMDEX Latin America.
He also served as a Director of a leading private investment and consulting firm specializing in financing and acquisitions of software services and development firms, and both domestic and “near-shore” technology outsourcing businesses.
Additionally, Eric Schaer was the founder of a technical consulting firm that provided professional services to the private and military sectors throughout the US, Latin America, and Europe. It was later sold to a private investment group based in Greenwich, CT for whom he subsequently worked in various management positions.
Eric Schaer has lectured both nationally and internationally and is fluent in English and Spanish.
