Eric Levesque

COO & Co-Founder

Eric Levesque is the COO and Co-Founder of Strider. Eric leads the operations and growth priorities of the company, working with employees, partners, and customers to deliver on the company’s mission of enabling organizations to utilize open-source data to manage risks and compete in a new era of global strategic competition.

Prior to founding Strider, Eric led the technology investment team at Oman Investment Authority, tasked with executing the investment strategy of Oman’s ‘Vision 2040’ economic plan. Additionally, Eric served on the Board of Directors for Teal Drones, a drone technology startup delivering cutting-edge drone platforms to U.S. and European militaries.

Previously, Eric worked in the Private Markets Group at Russell Investments and started his career in the Corporate Credit Group at Standard & Poor’s in New York City.

Eric is a Term Member at The Council on Foreign Relations and serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy and World Trade Center Utah. He holds an M.B.A. from Brigham Young University and a B.S. in Economics from Utah State University. He is fluent in Russian.