Eric Eve

Founder and Chief Executive Officer Eve and Co

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Eric Eve is the founder and chief executive of Eve and Co, the New York consulting firm known until recently as Ichor Strategies. Its business is the ground where large capital projects meet the places they land: the firm advises corporations on stakeholder insight, community engagement, analytics and communications, on the premise that a company deploying capital into a neighbourhood needs to understand that neighbourhood at a level most advisers cannot match. Eve founded it in 2015 after two decades that alternated between the private and public sectors — managing partner at the global communications consultancy Finsbury, First Deputy Comptroller of New York City in charge of a $65 million budget, a senior community-relations role at Citigroup, and a political affairs post in the Clinton White House. He describes the firm’s founding idea as inherited rather than invented: it came, he says, from the vision of his father, Arthur O. Eve.

Career Highlights

• Founded the firm in 2015 and remains responsible for its vision and growth; it now trades as Eve and Co, having previously been known as Ichor Strategies.
• Managed a $65 million budget as First Deputy Comptroller for the City of New York.
• Served as Managing Partner at Finsbury, the communications and global affairs consultancy, guiding corporations through crises and operational transitions.
• Held the role of Senior Vice President of Citigroup Global Community Relations.
• Served as Special Assistant for Political Affairs in the White House under President William Jefferson Clinton.
• Sits on the board of Restoration, the nation’s first community development corporation.
• Spoke to The Washington Post about voters turning against data centre development, and about why such projects are now increasingly decided at local level.

Professional Journey

Eve was born in Buffalo to parents he describes as dedicated public servants who shaped New York institutions, policy and communities, and his career has moved between the sectors that shaped them. In the Clinton administration he served as Special Assistant for Political Affairs at the White House. He later moved into corporate community relations as Senior Vice President of Citigroup Global Community Relations — a role at the point where a global bank’s capital meets local constituencies, and a fair description of the work he has done ever since.

He returned to the public sector as First Deputy Comptroller for the City of New York, the second post in an office that audits city agencies, manages pension assets and oversees municipal contracts, and where he was responsible for a $65 million budget. From there he joined Finsbury as a managing partner, advising corporations through crises and operational transitions — a strategic communications practice at the top of the market.

In 2015 he left to start his own firm. The idea he built it on was that the two sides of his career were usually treated as separate problems and should not be: organizations that deploy capital and the communities where their customers, employees and stakeholders live have interests that look opposed but can be bridged. He attributes that framing to his father, Arthur O. Eve. The firm’s practice has been built around it — hyperlocal expertise, research and analytics feeding engagement strategy rather than a conventional public-relations offer — and it is organized today into advisory, analytics, communications and engagement.

The firm traded for several years under the name Ichor Strategies before adopting the Eve and Co name around 2025; its former domain now redirects to the current one and its site carries the change openly. Eve continues to write and speak under his own name on the issues the practice covers, including community buy-in as the missing element in New York’s housing crisis, and the permission problem facing the data centre boom — a subject on which The Washington Post has quoted him on rising local opposition.

Education

Hobart College

Eve’s own biography states that he studied at Hobart College. It names no degree or field, and none is recorded here.