Erik A. Ginsberg

Mr. Erik Ginsberg is a co-founder and a partner at Slate Venture Group LLC.
He co-founded and is the former President of Let’s Dish! Mid-Atlantic, a retail chain of meal assembly stores in Maryland and Virginia, and Managing Director of Blackmore Partners, an M&A advisory firm established to support exceptional executives with acquisition strategies.
Prior to founding Slate, he was a Director with DB Capital Venture Partners, investing in enterprise infrastructure and application software companies.
He joined ABS Ventures, the predecessor to DBCVP, in March 2000.
From 1996-2000, Mr. Ginsberg was a Senior Vice President with Sterling Capital, Ltd., a private equity investment firm, where he acquired and ran companies in the direct marketing and e-commerce industries (although the firm acquired businesses in various industries, including education/testing, specialty distribution, and marketing services).
His tenure included operating stints with two of Sterling’s portfolio companies: as the Chief Executive Officer of NLP, Inc. and as Executive Vice President-Corporate Development of ICS, Inc. From 1993-1996, Mr. Ginsberg was an Associate with Kirkland & Ellis in their private equity group, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts and venture capital transactions.
Mr. Ginsberg received his BA from Brown University in 1988 and his JD/MBA from the University of Chicago in 1993.
He lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife, Lisa, and three children.