Mr. Erik Sebusch serves as Partner & Private Markets Investment Consultant at Mercer. He spent several years promoting innovation, investing, and making strategic venture investments for UPS. The UPS Pension Plan has investments in General Partnerships where his focus included LBO, VC, distressed, and real estate. Prior to that, he worked in the UPS Strategy Group's venture capital arm, where he was responsible for taking equity positions in startups and co-investing with venture capitalists in seed to early-stage portfolio companies. He built an extensive network of fellow VCs, entrepreneurs, research labs, and angel investors. 

Prior to UPS, he spent 10 years working as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch and in private practice for High Net Worth Clients. He serves on numerous boards including CEO Ventures and American Security Challenge and is Chair of the Innovation Advisory Committee for the SouthEast Emergency Response Network (SEERN) -- one of the former information-sharing pilots launched by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He was a member of the Institutional Limited Partnership Association and served on their Technology Steering Committee. He is an Angel Investor. He has a BA in Business Management and MBA in International Business from Thunderbird School of Global Management in 2001.