Eric Risley

Eric Risley

Architect Partners LLC | Founder & Managing Partner

Eric has over 30 years of experience guiding senior executives and corporate boards through mergers & acquisitions, private and public financings, and other strategic corporate transactions. Today Eric and the firm are solely dedicated to delivering world-class M&A advice and financing solutions to the leaders in crypto and digital assets.

Before founding Architect Partners, Eric led Global Software Corporate and Investment Banking for Banc of America Securities, at that time the technology group’s largest revenue-generating business delivering advice and capital to some of the firm’s largest clients. Prior to BofA Securities, Eric co-founded the Silicon Valley technology investment banking business in 1993 for Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (subsequently CIBC World Markets), leading both the Internet and Software Investment Banking businesses.

Eric has spent his entire career at the intersection of entrepreneurs building disruptive emerging technology, capital to support these endeavors, and established corporations and senior executives who are threatened and must adapt to these innovations.