Eric Wiberg’s career since he began sailing professionally in 1989 has largely been in the maritime and recruiting sector. He grew up in the Bahamas as part of a large Swedish-American family with half a dozen lawyers. He attended boarding schools in western Massachusetts and Newport, RI, before enrolling at Boston College in 1989. He began racing and delivering sailboats on long voyages, and while at BC he sailed to Belgium to attend Manchester College, Oxford for a year. He backpacked in Europe and East Africa and published travel writing in school magazines and over 20 publications. By graduation from BC in 1993 he had bound five collections of prose, poetry, and drawings. He then set off on a voyage to New Zealand as mate of a 70' wooden sailing ketch, of which he was promoted Captain in the Galapagos at age 23. A year of travel was the basis of his 500-page memoir “Round the World in the Wrong Season”.

On his return to the US in 1994 Eric obtained a 100-ton Captain's license from the US Coast Guard. In preparation for becoming a maritime lawyer he sought work in commercial shipping. He was assigned to the operations desk of a fleet of tanker and bulk ships operated for public company BHO (B&H Oceans). After three years in Singapore and numerous crisis-control situations (including 2 ship casualties and 4 deaths), he returned to Newport to work in the Armchair Sailor bookstore and on his round-the-world memoir. Necessity drove him to utilize the captain's license to deliver sailboats to and from New England and the Caribbean, on the back of which he founded Echo Yacht Delivery in 1999. In 2001 he completed on his fourth round-world trip before enrolling at Roger Williams University Law School on half scholarship.

Under the joint-degree masters/JD program with the University of RI, he was able to study marine policy and present papers on man overboard rescues, tanker spill legislation, and salvage law, culminating in a 200-page thesis. He utilized his legal education to start a real estate company via which he bought and sold roughly a dozen small lots to help pay for school. He recruited over 100 sailors for voyages during law school then sold Echo Yacht Delivery in 2005. Personally he has performed more than 30 Bermuda voyages and several trans-ocean deliveries, roughly half as captain. On passing the bar in Massachusetts and marrying Alexandra Gray, he was recruited by search legend Russell Reynolds to join what became RSR Partners in Greenwich, CT, for two years. After leading searches for INTTRA and other, in late 2007 he left RSR to found Ketch Recruiting, which provided executive search for the shipping, asset finance, logistics, and commodities sectors. Clients included European and Asian banks, top-three cruise and liner companies, and mid-size ship owners and operators. He sold Ketch in 2008 to join Boyden global executive search in Baltimore on a trial, then joined the CT Maritime Association to promote their 25th annual Shipping 2009 event in Stamford.

While he represents ship owners and salvors on a consultancy basis, mid-2009 finds him seeking a long-lasting career move with an organization he can grow into and help expand. Eric’s perspective is global, based on first-hand travels and contacts. His database of executives exceeds 5,500 people and he actively maintains relationships and develops business through his growing network. On his free time he enjoys kayaking, reading nautical history, and walks. He supports the Seamen’s Church Institute, IYRS, the Museum of Yachting, and is active on the Library Committee of the New York Yacht Club.