Eric Berggren
Eric Berggren
Managing Director, Axios Partners
Throughout his 25-year career, Eric has been a leader in innovating and managing
customer value to generate revenue and profit growth. He has developed and implemented
highly effective differentiation strategies for clients across a variety of industries
such as professional and financial services, high-tech, energy, health care, telecommunications
and industrial products and across diverse regions including Africa, Asia, Australia,
Europe and the Americas. His creative yet pragmatic approach consistently generates
tangible results that have been highlighted in
Harvard Business Review,
Fortune
and several business books. He also has lectured at Northwestern University's Kellogg
School of Management and taught numerous marketing excellence programs for Fortune
500 companies.
In addition to his client work, Eric's management experience ranges from founding
and managing a start-up consulting firm to leading a center of excellence within
a global consulting firm. He also served as chief of staff for a 150-person consulting
practice during a 30 percent per year growth phase. As chief of staff, he managed
all planning, budgeting, recruiting, staffing, training and compensation for the
$50 million practice. Prior to consulting, Eric worked in product management at
G.D. Searle & Co. where he launched the first-ever money-back guarantee on their
entire line of prescription drugs. Eric earned his Masters of Business Administration
with distinction from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management with concentrations
in management policy, marketing and finance. While at Kellogg, he was elected to
Beta Gamma Sigma. He earned his Bachelor's of Arts,
magna cum laude, with highest
honors in economics, from Kenyon College where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa
and awarded the
Kenyon Economics Prize for being the outstanding economics student.
Eric, his wife and two children live in and enjoy the city of Chicago. When he's
not cheering family members in soccer games, Special Olympics or other events, he
enjoys playing tennis and windsurfing.
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