Erik Prince is an American businessman, former U.S. Navy SEAL, and the founder of Blackwater, a private military company established in 1997. A graduate of Hillsdale College, Prince heads Frontier Resource Group, a private equity firm, and promotes economic development in emerging markets. He hosts the podcast Off Leash with Erik Prince, launched in 2023, and founded Unplugged, a privacy-focused smartphone company. Prince, a vocal advocate for privatizing military operations and deregulation, has been linked to controversial arms deals and Trump-era political operations.
Erik Bethel is a General Partner at Mare Liberum, a fund focused on sustainability and national security in the maritime domain. He is a global finance professional with experience in the private and public sectors. In 2020, he was nominated to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Panama. Previously, he was nominated by the President and confirmed unanimously by the Senate to represent the United States at the World Bank. At the World Bank, Erik participated in the analysis and deployment of over $100 billion of capital in the developing world through grants, loans, equity investments, and other financial products. Previously, Erik spent over twenty years working as an investment banker and private equity professional at Franklin Templeton Investments, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley. Erik earned a BS in economics and political science from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on several Boards, including the United States Naval War College Foundation, is a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and is an Advisor to Oxford Analytica – a geopolitical think tank. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin.
艾瑞克‧普林斯是一位美國商人，曾任美國海豹部隊隊員，也是黑水公司（成立於1997年的私人軍事公司）的創辦人。他畢業於希爾斯代爾學院，領導私募股權公司前沿資源集團（Frontier Resource Group），致力於推動新興市場的經濟發展。他主持了2023年推出的播客節目《與埃里克·普林斯一起脫韁》（Off Leash with Erik Prince），並創立了專注於隱私保護的智慧型手機公司Unplugged。普林斯積極倡導軍事行動私有化和放鬆管制，並涉嫌參與備受爭議的軍火交易和川普時代的政治行動。
埃里克·貝瑟爾是Mare Liberum的普通合夥人，該基金專注於海洋領域的可持續性和國家安全。他是一位全球金融專業人士，在私營和公共部門擁有豐富的經驗。 2020年，他被提名擔任美國駐巴拿馬共和國大使。此前，他經總統提名，並經參議院一致批准，代表美國駐世界銀行。在世界銀行，埃里克參與了對發展中國家超過1000億美元資金的分析和部署，這些資金透過贈款、貸款、股權投資和其他金融產品提供。此前，艾瑞克曾在富蘭克林鄧普頓投資公司、摩根大通和摩根士丹利擔任投資銀行家和私募股權專業人士超過二十年。艾瑞克擁有安納波利斯美國海軍學院經濟學和政治學學士學位，以及賓州大學華頓商學院工商管理碩士學位。他擔任多個董事會成員，包括美國海軍戰爭學院基金會、戰略與國際研究中心（CSIS）研究員以及地緣政治智庫牛津分析公司的顧問。他會說西班牙語、葡萄牙語和普通話。