Eric Woods

Eric Woods is a Managing Director at Mezzo, which he joined in 2026. He brings more than 30 years of operating and advisory experience across distribution, telecommunications, infrastructure, construction, media, technology and services businesses, with a focus on growth, transformation and value creation. At Mezzo, he focuses primarily on distribution businesses.

Prior to joining Mezzo, Mr. Woods was a Principal at Heritage Capital Group, an investment banking firm, where he focused on distribution businesses and advised clients on sales, acquisitions, management buyouts and growth investments. He previously served as Vice President of Carrier Services at Hotwire Communications and as Senior Director of Market Development at Comcast Business.

Mr. Woods has held senior leadership roles at both private and public companies. As General Manager and Division President of Ivan Allen Workspace, a subsidiary of HNI Corporation, the parent company of Allsteel, he rebuilt the sales organization and repositioned the business ahead of its sale in 2016. He also led business units at 1105 Media and Vendome Group. Across these roles, he scaled sales and business development organizations, developed go-to-market strategies and expanded into new markets.

Mr. Woods has also advised private equity-owned portfolio companies on growth strategy, acquisition evaluation and exit readiness. Earlier in his career, he founded and later sold two companies, Communications Management International and DataHive.

Mr. Woods holds an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication from Emerson College, where he played baseball.