Eric Burns is a Partner and Chief Investment Officer of EverExcel, where he leads the group’s investment strategy and expansion into the United States.  He is based in New York.

Eric has experience working across a diverse set of industries, but has specific domain expertise at the intersection of industrial markets and technology: physical AI, deep tech, advanced manufacturing, smart infrastructure and transportation, and the commercial space economy. He looks for companies turning breakthrough technology into durable growth opportunities, and for established companies investing to lead industries for decades to come.

He brings more than 20 years of experience advising founders, investors and boards on M&A and capital markets transactions. Eric spent 12 years at Citigroup in New York. He joined as an Associate after law and business school and rose to Managing Director in Technology, advising on more than $80 billion in M&A, multiple IPOs and follow-ons, private placements and a wide range of leveraged finance activity. From 2022 to 2025, he was Senior Managing Director in Technology at Guggenheim Securities in New York and San Francisco, advising software and industrial technology companies. A career witnessing and shaping how value is created, priced and realized impacts how he evaluates and supports investments today, and how he partners with teams and investors working with EverExcel.

Eric has been advising founders directly since leaving investment banking. His approach in understanding any opportunity borrows from his original training and early career as a journalist – be curious, ask questions, separate the story from the substance, and remain optimistic.

He and his family focus their philanthropy on brain health, supporting research toward cures for neurodegenerative disease and the caregivers and families affected by it.

Eric holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and a joint J.D./M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.