Eric Egnet is a seasoned executive, business strategist, senior technologist, and visionary innovator with over 28 years in executive management and senior leadership roles. He works across different industries helping companies to grow successfully, transform, and innovate their businesses. He is an operating partner, thought leader, and speaker cited in several leading journals and was named one of the top 100 Social CIOs for three consecutive years by the Huffington Post. Eric is an accomplished entrepreneur and pre-seed investor and currently serves as a CXO executive for several emerging technology companies worldwide. He has spoken domestically and internationally on emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, IoT, cybersecurity, sky computing, and fintech. As a C-Level officer of early-stage startups, mid-market, and large-market companies, Eric has been part of many successful business exits and double-digit M and A transactions. He has led and strategically diversified businesses, developed and implemented innovative technologies, and participated in several funding rounds. Eric has created competitive advantages, driven sales and marketing, launched new businesses, established strong partnerships, scaled operations, and was crucial in helping one company go public successfully.
Cross Country Healthcare - $35m - $650m dollar company
He served as EVP and CIO of Cross Country Healthcare, the nation’s largest Travel Nursing company. After initially joining and helping grow TravCorps, the industry founder, a 35-million dollar privately held company, it was purchased by Morgan Stanley five years later for 115-million dollars. TravCorps and Cross Country Staffing then merged later that year same year, creating Cross Country Healthcare. The company went public two years later, and Eric helped the combined Boston MA / Boca Raton FL company align technologically, operationally, and culturally. He then helped lead, scale, and diversify Cross Country Healthcare to become a 650-million dollar company and the industry’s technology innovation leader.
Millenium Pharmacy - $15m funding raised
Eric then launched a successful healthcare media company and an independent management consultancy for Boston-based venture capital firms. He served as an operating partner and CIO for Millenium Pharmacy, a venture-backed company in robotics pharmacy automation. He helped Millenium expand and grow its technology, operations, and team during his tenure, doubling its client base and raising fifteen million dollars in a new funding round.
Vitalize Consulting - Growth to 650 headcount, sold for $200m in 6 years
After successfully selling his companies, Eric started a Healthcare IT company with former executive business partners from TravCorps. This company grew and became Vitalize Consulting, which helped U.S. hospitals implement major clinical electronic medical record (EMR) systems from multiple commercial vendors nationwide. Vitalize grew to six hundred and fifty consultants and was acquired six years later by SAIC, a 17-billion-dollar national security and defense company, for two-hundred-million dollars.
MSI Global Transformation Solutions - Global Growth
Eric then became President, COO, and CIO of MSI Global Transformation Solutions, a private company with international offices across all regions of the globe, providing immigration, compensation, tax, global mobility, domestic relocation, talent management, technology services, and global expansion services worldwide. He helped create, lead, and scale an array of MSI domestic and international businesses. Eric drove significant business and technological advancements and introduced global consulting services in his tenure of over eight years while establishing strong industry partnerships and managing a client portfolio of multinational companies that included: Apple, Visa, British Telecom, iRobot, Adidas, Lockheed Martin, and more.
A final word
Eric Egnet is a seasoned executive, business strategist, senior technologist, and visionary innovator with over 28 years in executive management and senior leadership roles. He works across different industries helping companies to grow successfully, transform, and innovate their businesses. He is an operating partner, thought leader, and speaker cited in several leading journals and was named one of the top 100 Social CIOs for three consecutive years by the Huffington Post. Trendigm, an innovation and strategy consultancy and pre-seed-level private equity firm with investments in a growing portfolio of emerging technology, disruptive innovation, and deep tech companies in the following industries: Robotics, Healthcare, Fintech, Life Sciences, Global Procurement and Supply Chain, Blockchain, Personalized Nutrition, and Ultra-Luxury. Eric possesses an in-depth understanding and action-oriented mentality for what it takes to set, execute, and achieve aggressive business goals and objectives. Eric has a proven ability to develop, coach, and lead action-oriented teams of highly skilled individuals to work together to achieve business results. He is a creative and strategic “outside the box” thinker, leader, and entrepreneur with the vision, commitment, desire, and passion for successfully driving and accomplishing business growth plans.