Eric Baird is the founder and CEO of Baird Inc., a private debt and equity firm that serves as alternative capital opportunities for small, growing, and established businesses that may not fit conventional capital markets' requirements. Baird also holds subsidiaries: Tarpon Pointe Marina, Baird Real Estate, Hotel Ranola, and Gail Baird Foundation.

A serial entrepreneur and investor, he founded the Sarasota-based MyUS.com, then Access USA as a mail forwarding operation before it transitioned to shipping American products overseas. Fueled by a competitive spirit and the burning desire to be better than the competition, Eric grew MyUS.com into a global company, serving over 400,000 led him to earn the 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year award by Review. MyUS.com was valued at more than $200 million when he sold the company in 2012.  

Baird started his career at the American Stock Exchange on the options trading desk. He co-founded Multinational Concepts, Ltd (MNC), one of the most profitable international full-service direct mail lists and global cooperative database firms before establishing MyUS.com and Baird Inc.