Eric Sanchez.

• Role
  Founder and Managing Partner, Maestro Strategic Partners
• Education
  M.A. Public Policy & Administration, Northwestern University
  B.S. Criminal Justice Administration, California State University, East Bay
• Service
  Eight years, United States Marine Corps. Honorably discharged as Corporal.
• Based
  Durham, North Carolina

Biography

Eric Sanchez empowers organizations to enhance their efficiency, innovation, and culture. His experience spans law, technology, and the operational work of building something that scales without losing the people inside it.

Over two decades he moved from office manager at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin to Vice President of Strategy, helping build one of the largest personal injury firms in the Southeast. Along the way he founded GrowPath, a legal-technology company spun out of the firm’s own systems, and became a named inventor on thirty US patents spanning marketing analytics, cybersecurity, database management, email routing, and interface design.

He served as class counsel’s point person on data, technology, and the claims process in the Black Farmers discrimination litigation, engineering the nationwide claims operation behind a $1.25 billion settlement. The work involved 384 in-person claimant meetings across 66 cities in 23 states, and roughly 22,000 claimants helped in person. The federal judge awarded full attorney fees, citing the professionalism and diligence demonstrated. Eric was present when President Obama signed the Claims Resolution Act of 2010.

Before any of that, he spent eight years in the Marine Corps and five years as a youth and administration pastor in Silicon Valley. When his daughter Grace was born with a congenital heart defect, his advocacy led to North Carolina Senate Bill 98, the mandatory pulse-oximetry screening law signed in 2013.

You are not a business selling services. The foundation of any great business lies in its people, process, and technology.