Straightforward and Authentic — That is our promise.
ERAS is built around ex-CxOs who have sat in the seat where decisions had to be made and issues solved. They understand — and empathize with — the need to ensure investments are accounted for and that value lives on a perishable timetable. There is no time or place for fluff, only straight talk: honest and non-apologetic.
Founder led and operated.
A culture that is set at the top and executed throughout. Meet the founders that set the tone of every meeting and engagement.
Raphael Hildesheim
Raphael Hildesheim is a seasoned global operator and M&A leader with more than three decades scaling technology-enabled businesses across the U.S., Latin America, and Asia. A former COO and P&L executive, he has run multi-country operations and driven disciplined growth across sales, delivery, finance, and engineering — the kind of full-P&L accountability that only comes from having actually sat in the seat. A veteran of the Global 1000, he pairs that operating experience with deep transaction expertise.
As Founder and Managing Partner of ERAS, Raphael partners with founders, private equity sponsors, and executive teams to strengthen execution, sharpen integration readiness, and unlock value creation — pragmatic, financially rigorous, and unafraid to name the operational gap everyone else is talking around. Fluent in English and Portuguese, with working proficiency in Spanish, he brings genuine cross-border fluency to every engagement, not a translated deck.
Bennett Letwin
Bennett Letwin’s operating philosophy is simple: find a better way, every day. Over nearly four decades, he has led corporate strategic initiatives across marketing, sales, product development, and operations for some of the world’s largest corporations — planning, resourcing, and executing first-of-a-kind, mission-critical systems that support governments and Global Fortune companies.
He is also a serial entrepreneur who has raised $17M, most notably as a co-founder of the Internet’s B2B e-commerce industry. Bennett holds a master’s degree in Entrepreneurship and has mentored more than 20 global startups — from Sweden to Australia to Mongolia — across AI, IoT, cybersecurity, augmented reality, and blockchain. His approach to every engagement: be the rising tide that lifts all boats.
One standard, applied by everyone who touches your engagement.
The tone set at the top doesn’t stay at the top. Every engagement is staffed by operators who’ve run the functions they’re advising on — not analysts learning on your dollar. The same DRIVE methodology, the same AI-native rigor, and the same direct, no-fluff communication style apply whether you’re working with a founder or any other member of the team. Culture isn’t a slide in the kickoff deck here — it’s how the work actually gets done, engagement after engagement.