Mr. Noll is the CEO of Context Capital Partners in Bala Cynwyd, PA. He joined the Context team to further develop and execute the strategic vision through partnerships, alternative investments, and financial technology. Context Capital Partners is also the parent company of Context Summits and Context Family Network.
In 2013, Mr. Noll was named President and CEO of Convergex, a global, institutional, agency broker-dealer – one of the three largest in the world – headquartered in New York City. The private equity-backed venture was successfully sold under his leadership in 2018. After the sale of Convergex, Eric founded Willow Creek Capital, LLC, a firm providing advisory and consulting services to the financial technology, capital markets, and private equity space.
Before Convergex, Mr. Noll was the Executive Vice-President, Transaction Services for NASDAQ, responsible for NASDAQ’s global exchange businesses. Prior to NASDAQ, Mr. worked for over 15 years at Susquehanna International Group, serving in many different capacities.
With over two decades of experience in the financial services and financial technology space, Mr. Noll is a well-recognized industry expert on capital markets and has been twice named to the Institutional Investor Trading Technology list of Top 40 Executives in Financial Technology.
Mr. Noll served on the SEC Equity Market Structure Task Force, where he chaired the Market Quality Subcommittee.
In 2018, Mr. Noll was appointed to be the Interim President of Franklin and Marshall College, where he remains a long-standing Board member. He currently serves as the Chair of the Board. He is also the Chair of the Board of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, a Governor of FINRA, a Trustee of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Owen School of Management Vanderbilt University.