The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
Biography
Eric Mindich is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Eton Park Capital Management, a global, multi-disciplinary, team-oriented investment organization dedicated to delivering superior risk-adjusted returns over multi-year periods. The firm has offices in New York, London and Hong Kong.
Prior to forming Eton Park in 2004, Mindich spent fifteen years at Goldman Sachs in two main roles: leading the Equities Arbitrage business and managing the Equities Division. Mindich joined Goldman Sachs in 1988 in the Equities Arbitrage Department and led that team from 1992 until 2000. At age twenty-seven, he became the youngest partner in the history of Goldman Sachs. In 2000, Mindich became Co-Chief Operating Officer of the Equities Division and in 2002 became Co-Head of the Equities Division and a member of the Goldman Sachs Management Committee. In 2003, he joined the Executive Office as Senior Strategy Officer and Chair of the Firmwide Strategy Committee.
Mindich serves as Trustee of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Chairman of its investment committee, President of the Lincoln Center Theater Board of Directors, and as a trustee of The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Inc. and The Horace Mann School.
Mindich graduated from Harvard College in 1988, summa cum laude, with a BA in Economics, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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