Eric Dobkin

Eric Dobkin is the Chairman of Whistler Capital Partners and a former senior figure at Goldman Sachs, where he worked for 49 years as a Partner and the Founder and Global Head of Equity Capital Markets. He is best known for founding Wall Street's first equity capital markets unit at Goldman Sachs in 1985 and for pioneering the modern institutional IPO model, earning him the designation from the New York Times as the father of the modern-day initial public offering of stock. He previously served as a Senior Advisor to Starr Investment Holdings and remains active as an angel investor and board member.