Chief Creative Officer & Founder / Silver + Partners
Eric started out working as a writer at Chiat Day before moving to Portland to work on NIKE and ESPN at Wieden and Kennedy. From there he took a job as a staff writer on the Late Show with David Letterman. After submitting a Top 10 list of reasons Conan’s show was funnier, he decided to accept a position as Creative Director at Cliff Freeman and Partners. According to the Gunn report, it was the most awarded agency in the world during that five-year period. As Executive Creative Director at BBDO, Eric worked on FedEx, Monster, and BBC. Work for all three clients was selected to Adweek’s Best of the Decade list.
Eric has spent the last four years running his own agency in Manhattan, Silver + Partners. Along with appearing in Mashable a dozen times for their social efforts and creating three Super Bowl commercials, the agency was also named to Ad Age’s prestigious Ones to Watch / A list.
In addition to being inducted into the AAF Hall of Achievement, his work has won every major creative award several times over, including the including the Grand Prix at Cannes.
In his free time, Eric enjoys hanging out with his two teen daughters and spends the rest of his time contemplating how he can be old enough to have two teen daughters.
