Managing Director, AEA Investors, LLC
Martin Eltrich joined AEA Investors, LLC (AEA) in 2001 and focuses on consumer
products investments. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Burt's
Bees, Henry, IAG Research, and Tampico Beverages. Eltrich co-led AEA's
transaction teams in investing capital in Burt's Bees, Henry and Acosta.
Before joining AEA, Eltrich was an investment banker covering the consumer
products industry advising companies such as Diageo, General Mills, Nestlé, and
Coca-Cola in numerous transactions. He was an investment banker at Greenhill
& Co. in New York, joining that firm at its inception in 1996. While at
Greenhill, Eltrich helped facilitate more than a dozen merger and acquisition
transactions with more than $40 billion of transaction value, including
Pillsbury's sale to General Mills and Nestlé’s acquisition of Ralston Purina.
Earlier in his career, Eltrich was a member of the consumer products group at
Morgan Stanley.
Eltrich serves as Chairman of the Human Resources Committee of the Acosta Board
of Directors. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania.