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Eric Schless Managing Director
Wachovia Securities
Industrial Growth & Services - Transportation


Eric Schless is a Managing Director of the Transportation and Logistics practice in the Industrial Growth group at Wachovia Securities. He has over twenty years of investment banking experience, with prior stints at Bear Stearns and Schroders PLC, where he initiated and managed the growth of those firms' transportation and logistics practices.

Since joining Wachovia in 2005, Mr. Schless has devoted a significant portion of his time to the initiation and development of Wachovia's shipping practice. This contributed to Wachovia's being the #1 bookrunner of equity issues for dry bulk carriers in 2007, with a market share in excess of 30%. Mr Schless's areas of expertise include advising on and executing issuances of equity and debt, mergers and acquisitions and derivative transactions. He has worked with companies in all sectors of the shipping industry and is backed up by a substantial team of financial product experts with a strong knowledge of the shipping industry.

Mr. Schless is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Washington and Lee University School of Law.