Eric helps clients achieve their business and humanitarian goals in healthcare, food, and agriculture with the U.S. Congress and regulatory agencies including FDA, USDA, EPA, and USTR. His more than 20 years of experience in complex legislation and regulation spans nutrition assistance programs, healthcare marketing, food and beverage industry, animal health industry, production agriculture, and international trade & diplomacy.

Eric proudly helps represent APG in Washington, D.C. Before OFW, he served three Chairmen at the Senate Agriculture Committee to produce two Farm Bills, served as a political appointee at USDA for President George W. Bush, and worked in government affairs at Kraft Foods and Elanco Animal Health. Eric grew up on a small farm in Indiana, earned a B.S. in Agricultural Education from Purdue University and a J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law, and loves spending time his family and sharing his wildlife photography.