Eric Block

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

For more than 25 years Eric has advised clients on various financial matters. He relies greatly on his expert analytic skills and his background and training as an accountant to help his clients define their financial issues and goals and to craft solutions to help them achieve those. He is also an expert in Executive Compensation in the Advertising and related industries. In that capacity he advises individuals as to their compensation and other employment related issues, as well as working with Companies in those industries to design executive compensation programs for their key executives. He has more than 15 years of experience in this field and has worked with senior executives up to and including the Global CEO level. 

Eric joined the Company in 1985 as its Controller and later served as its Chief Financial Officer. Currently he holds the title of Chief Compliance Officer. Prior to joining Circle, Eric spent more than four years at Coopers & Lybrand (now Pricewaterhouse Coopers) where he was a member of the audit staff. He achieved the designation of Certified Public Accountant in 1983, although he has not practiced as one since leaving there.

Eric graduated with honors from The University at Albany with an MS degree in accounting. He makes his home in Manhattan with his wife and two boys.