As Chief Operating Officer at Echo Health Ventures, Jon Eide leads operations and helps guide strategy to drive the execution and management of Echo’s strategic investments in innovative companies that are transforming the health care industry. Jon brings more than 20 years of deep investment transaction practice and finance and accounting experience to his role as COO, including previously working on several Echo Health Ventures investment transactions as external counsel.Prior to joining Echo, Jon was a Partner in the Corporate Department of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson in Charlotte, NC, where his practice included advising financial and strategic investors with respect to investments and joint ventures with companies in the health care, e-commerce, manufacturing and software industries. Before attending law school, Jon was a Vice President, Finance in the Corporate and Investment Banking division at Wachovia, a Wells Fargo company, and started his career in audit and assurance roles at Deloitte & Touche and Arthur Andersen.