Eric Olson is a Massachusetts native (go Red Sox!) and Bentley College alumnus (B.S. Finance w/ IT Minor - Magna Cum Laude - 2004) who now resides in Chicago. He is currently working as an Associate at DFJ Portage while also advising a couple of Midwest-based startups.

Prior to DFJ Portage Eric was VP of Business Development at BuzzFeed. He has also worked in Partner Development at Google and in Business Development for Chicago-based startup FeedBurner which was acquired by Google in June 2007.

n his "spare" time Eric is one half the founding/managing duo of TECH cocktail which is a quarterly event for technology people in Chicago, Washington D.C. and Boston (soon to be in other cities as well). Eric also volunteers at World Bicycle Relief where he advises on web strategy.

Eric's interests include: baseball, cycling, drumming, technology, venture capital, microfinance, archeology, history, physics, movies, writing and reading.

Eric Olson's blog is Olson's Observations.