Erik Bunaes, Principal & President
After more than one and a half decades living and working in Silicon Valley, Erik and his family re-located back home to east coast in 2011.
Erik is the Principal, President and driving force behind Endorphin Advisors, a unique management consulting firm and marketing agency.
He is a corporate-trained business development professional who thrives on brainstorming new development and marketing strategies with business owners, and is fascinated by the inner workings, operations, finances and marketing of all businesses.
Erik gained valuable training and knowledge from many years working for two large corporations - Marsh McLennan and Towers Perrin – in assignments in New York, London, Philadelphia and San Francisco. During this time, he gained significant expertise in business development, operations, marketing, business planning, accounting and financial statements and projections. After completing a comprehensive management training program, Erik spent almost a decade traveling extensively around the US working with existing clients and developing new business. This included work with insurance carriers, agencies, managing general agencies, self-insured funds and risk retention groups, all in various lifecycle stages from start-up ventures to large, publicly-traded entities.
During the first dot-com boom, starting in 1995, Erik moved to Silicon Valley to join an Internet start-up. At the insurance portal, InsWeb.com, he directed a marketing program for a cutting-edge online marketplace where insurance agents advertised and sold their products. In a six month period, Erik created more than 60 new corporate client relationships for this online marketplace.
Erik left the corporate world in 2005 to start Endorphin Advisors, then started Endorphin Business Center LLC in 2011.
Erik, an inquisitive, life-long student, is dedicated to continuing education and continuous learning. Some education and training highlights:
- B.A., English, St. Lawrence University
- M.B.A., Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Certified Inbound Marketing Professional, Inbound Marketing University and Hubspot, Inc. Hubspot business partner and consultant to Hubspot users
- Constant Contact-certified expert in Social Media Marketing and Email Marketing. Constant Contact Business Partner
- Management training program, Balis & Co. (Marsh McLennan), Philadelphia, PA
- Negotiation skills (3-day course), American Management Association, San Francisco, CA
- Studied French at University of Grenoble, France
- Trained as business coach at Coaches Training Institute, San Rafael, CA
Complementing his business career, Erik is a dedicated cyclist and an accomplished, veteran alpine ski racer. Erik’s continuing love of alpine ski racing spans more than 25 years. One of Erik’s personal goals is to again coach alpine ski racing.
Erik, along with his wife, their two young children and their famous yellow lab, Caper, now enjoy living in the Albany, New York area.
For more information, connect with Erik on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/erikbunaes.
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