Eric Schless is a managing director in the Industrials Investment Banking group at Wells Fargo Securities and heads the Transportation and Logistics practice. He is based in New York.  

Eric joined Wells Fargo in 2005 and has more than 25 years of investment banking experience. He has focused on building a group to cover all aspects of the transportation and logistics industries. He has been responsible for numerous book-run debt and equity transactions and advisory assignments for domestic and international shipping companies, Class 1 and short line railroads, rail supply companies, trucking companies, equipment lessors, and logistics providers.

Eric previously worked at Bear Stearns and Schroders, where he established and built their transportation practices. 

Eric received a B.A. with distinction from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he was a contributor to and a member of the editorial board of the Law Review.