About Eric Solis

Eric Solis- Entrepreneur, Inventor, Innovator, Mentor, Evangelist and Coach

Eric Solis has over twenty years experience building businesses and is the founder of three start-up companies.  Eric began his career as a stock broker in 1986 (at the age of 23 years old) with Prudential Bache Securities where he became a member of the director’s council and the youngest Vice President in the firm.  

In 1994 Mr. Solis began his entrepreneurial journey as the founder of Solis MoneyLine, Inc. a registered investment advisor and Investment Company managing assets in excess of $100 million for institutional clients and wealthy families. Eric was also the producer and host of the popular radio show “All about Money” where he interviewed captains of industry like Michael Dell, Steve Forbes, Gary Kelly, Mike Bowlin, Dennis Bakke and many others.  

In early 1998 Mr. Solis conceived of a revolutionary financial technology which he reduced to practice in 1999. This ground breaking work landed Eric on the front pages of Fortune Magazine where he was selected as one of the country’s top entrepreneurs and innovators. In 2005 Eric launched SAVE252, Systems Inc. and he sold the company in 2008 to a private equity group in Newport Beach, Ca.

In an effort to give back to his community and to impact lives in a positive way, in 2010 Mr. Solis served as a pastor for a church congregation of over 4,000 people.  Eric continues his entrepreneurial quest with his most recent work in the area(s) of consumer privacy and net neutrality.     

FEATURE PUBLICATIONS 

·        Washington Post, One Stop Banking, January 2009

·        Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Community Affairs, Micro-enterprise:  Growing

·        Businesses, Assets and Markets, September 2008

·        Washington Post, Banking Crisis, July 2008

·        3rd Annual Financial Forum, Under-banked, June 2008

·        Center for Financial Service Innovation, Innovation Trends, 2007

·        American Banker, Aiding the Under-banked, October 2006

·        Digital Divide, Dimensions for a Fallacy of Progress, 2003

·        The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy 2002

·             The Financial Services Round-table and The Ford Foundation, June 2002

·        American Demographics, The Rising Tide, April 2001

·        Fortune Magazine, Big Idea Issue, March 2001

·        Wall Street Journal, Money and Investing, December 1999

·        Business Week, 4th Annual Retirement Survey, July 1998

·        New York Times, Personal Finance, October 2000

·             Institutional Investors Magazine, Dialing for Dollars, 1987