David S. Erickson

David Erickson joined CBS in the Fall of 2024 as an Adjunct Professor in the Finance Department.

Prior to joining CBS, David spent ten years at The Wharton School as a Senior Fellow and Lecturer in the Finance Department and Co-Director of the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance. He earned the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award each of his last six years there. David was also a Lecturer in Law at Penn Law/University of Pennsylvania Law School.

In addition to his responsibilities at CBS, David acts as a consultant to both private and public companies on capital markets, corporate governance, and exploring strategic alternatives. Previously, he was also an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the leading global venture capital firms and an advisory board member of Accompany, a relationship intelligence technology company (acquired by Cisco Systems, May 2018).

After over 25 years on Wall Street, David retired in 2013. Most recently, he was co-head of global equity capital markets at Barclays. He was responsible for all of their corporate equity capital raising globally including all IPOs, follow-ons, private placements and convertibles, as well as equity derivatives. As part of his responsibilities, David was a member of the firm’s investment banking operating committee and equity capital commitment committee. Prior to Barclays’ acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ US broker-dealer in 2008, David was head of global equity capital markets at Lehman. In 2004, he was named Lehman’s head of US equity capital markets. Lehman was awarded International Financing Review’s 2005 US Equity House of the Year and US Equity-Linked House of the Year, for its equity capital markets success. Prior to 2004, David also had equity capital markets sector responsibilities for Technology, Internet, Media, Consumer & Retail, and Industrials. Early in his investment banking career, David also ran Bankers Trust International’s London-based investment management business. Before becoming an investment banker, David worked as a vice president at a Boston-based strategic consulting firm that focused on the investment banking industry.