Mr. Eric Guichard is co-founder, Board member and investor in Caribbean Sustainable Aquaculture AS, (CSAgroup.no) a Norwegian aquaculture company focused on developing fish protein supplies on an environmentally friendly scale with the objective of delivering on food security, job creation, and technology transfer in the Caribbean.

Eric is founder & CEO of Homestrings.com, a Diaspora investment advisory platform. Homestrings advises public, private and multilateral organizations on diaspora mobilization strategies for investment into public and private projects. Homestrings is strategic advisor to the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA).

Eric is also co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of WealthAccess.co (GWA) a global diaspora wealth management platform.

Prior to GWA, CSA and Homestrings Eric was Founder and Chairman of GRAVITAS Capital, an institutional asset management company he created in 1996 which advised over $1.5 billion in sovereign mandates.

Before his entrepreneurial stint, Eric was Portfolio Manager at the World Bank where he served as technical adviser to sovereign and multilateral institutions.

He is a graduate of the University of Dakar, in Senegal; of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh; and of the Harvard Business School, where he earned his MBA (World Bank Scholar and Harvard Fellowship award.)

He serves on several non-profit boards, including: Chairman, International Organization on Migration (IOM) Advisory Board on Diaspora Investments (idiaspora.org); The African Development Bank’s Steering Committee on Diaspora Investments; the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith Business School Advisory Board and is Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Eric has published reports for the Atlantic Council: “Africa's creative output can create opportunity and wealth (2024)”, and for the Asian Development Bank: “Indonesia Diaspora Bond Feasibility Study (2019).” He has also published in the American Diplomatic Journal “Global Migrant Remittances – A New Development Finance Paradigm? Implementation Successes, Failures and US Foreign Policy Implications” (2018).

Eric has been featured in the following media outlets: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes – Africa Magazine, CNBC, Euromoney Magazine, BBC Television, and BBC Radio, among others.