Eric Van Dam

Eric Van Dam is a Managing Director, Head of Residential and Commercial Services at Cowen. Mr. Van Dam brings over 15 years of experience on over 100 transactions. Prior to Cowen, Mr. Van Dam was at Quarton International, he led a variety of middle market mergers and acquisitions engagements. Prior to joining Quarton, Mr. Van Dam was at Kingdon Capital Management, a New York-based long / short equity hedge fund. Prior to that, Mr. Van Dam was at Vestar Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm. Mr. Van Dam has held positions at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers in the Leveraged Finance Group.

Mr. Van Dam has a B.A. in Finance from Michigan State University and a M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.