Eric David Wanger

Mr. Eric D.
Wanger, CFA, is Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer at Wanger Investment Management, Inc. He serves as the Portfolio Manager of the Wanger Long Term Opportunity Strategy and a Member at California Bar.
Prior to founding Wanger Investment Management in 2002, Mr. Wanger was a senior investment analyst at Barrington Research Associates (Chicago) covering technology and business services.
Prior to that, he was a software, communications, and technology analyst for the Edgewater Funds, a private equity/venture capital firm with over $1 billion under management.
Before joining Edgewater funds in 2000, Mr. Wanger worked in Silicon Valley providing consulting, training, and software development to early-stage firms.
Between 1991 and 1996, he was a principal consultant at EDW, Ltd, a firm he founded to provide software development, training in rapid software development techniques (NeXT), and systems interoperability consulting services for large multi-vendor and distributed computer networks.
EDW's clients included such companies as Fannie Mae, MCI, Swiss Bank Corp (UBS), Chrysler, Merrill Lynch, Apple Computer, Stanford University, and The Acorn Funds.
Between 1986 and 1991, he served as President of Cornerstone Information Systems, Inc. a systems integrator he founded in Chicago specializing in design, support, integration, and training for office automation, accounting systems, and networking.
Mr. Wanger received his J.D.
from Stanford Law School and is a member of the California Bar.
He was co-founder and managing editor of the Stanford Technology Law Review.
He holds a B.S.
in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.