Erik Edstrom

About

Erik is an Operating Partner at Blue Torch Capital in New York City. Prior to Blue Torch, Erik was the VP of Transformation (VPT) for Deluxe, a Platinum Equity Portco. Before that, Erik led a team in Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) corporate strategy team. Earlier, Erik owned and operated an independent consulting practice, based in Boston, serving large and mid-market Private Equity clients across sectors--e.g. utilities, tech, FS, PE, manufacturing, retail--geographies--Europe, North America, Asia-pac--and functional topics--strategy, ops, marketing, commercial due diligence, org effectiveness, etc. In May 2020, Bloomsbury published his debut book, "Un-American: A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War." The New York Times said, "There have been several excellent memoirs by veterans of our current wars, but this is the first one that reminded me of the disillusioned writings of British veterans after World War I..." It is sold online and at major international bookstores including Target, Barnes & Noble (US), Blackwell's (UK), and Dymocks (Australia), amongst others. Erik is represented by Word Link Literary. His writing and media appearances have been featured on CBS Sunday Morning,

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