American businessman and founder of Blackwater USA (born 1969)
Not to be confused with the English footballer Eric Prince.
Erik Prince
Prince in 2015
Born
Erik Dean Prince
(1969-06-06) June 6, 1969 (age 54)
Holland, Michigan, U.S.
Education
Hillsdale College (BA)
Known for
Founder of Blackwater
Spouses
Joan Prince
(m. 1991; died 2003)
Joanna Houck
(m. 2004; div. 2012)
Stacy DeLuke (m. date unknown)
Children
12
Parent
Edgar Prince (father)
Relatives
Betsy DeVos (sister)
Military career
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Navy
Rank
Lieutenant
Unit
United States Navy SEALs
Erik Dean Prince (born June 6, 1969) is an American businessman, former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, and the founder of the private military company Blackwater. He served as Blackwater's CEO until 2009 and as its chairman until its sale to a group of investors in 2010. Prince heads the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group and was chairman of the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group until 2021. Prince is the son of engineer and businessman Edgar Prince, and the brother of former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
Erik Dean Prince (born June 6, 1969) is an American businessman, former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, and the founder of the private military company Blackwater...
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of Education; former Blackwater (now Academi) CEO Erik; Eileen (Ellens); and Emilie (Wierda). Prince died on March 2, 1995, in Holland, Michigan. According...
company founded and led until April 2021 by ErikPrince, the former head of Blackwater Worldwide. Prince has described FSG's main corporate mission as...
Edgar Prince and his wife Elsa. Its vice president is ErikPrince, the founder of Blackwater USA (now known as Academi). The Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation...
brother, ErikPrince, a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, is the founder of Blackwater USA. Their father is billionaire industrialist Edgar Prince, founder...
intermediary George Nader, ErikPrince, and Joel Zamel in Trump Tower on August 3, 2016. Nader reportedly told Trump Jr. the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and...
2020, she married Ben Wierda, nephew of Betsy DeVos and ErikPrince and grandson of Edgar Prince, in a private ceremony in Michigan. Gifford and Wierda...
intelligence and national security communities. It is also known that ErikPrince, the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater, is...
their work as US government contractors during the Iraq War"; founder ErikPrince sold the company and departed soon thereafter. Employees of private military...
meeting for him and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Seychelles with US and Russian delegates, including ErikPrince and Kirill Dmitriev. Mohamed...
many argue is based on real life figures Alfried Krupp, Johann Rall and ErikPrince. Voight plays the chief executive officer of a fictional private military...
Cole, Matthew (11 April 2016). "Inside ErikPrince's Treacherous Drive to Build a Private Air Force: ErikPrince used his publicly traded company, Frontier...
the crisis in Venezuela. In Afghanistan, he supported a proposal by ErikPrince for the deployment of private military contractors instead of the U.S...
government customers. TIS was owned by The Prince Group, a private company led by ErikPrince. ErikPrince also owned numerous other investment and business...
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including Eswatini, Lesotho and Botswana, by the end of 2019. Early in 2020, ErikPrince, founder of the Blackwater private military company, sought to provide...
Global Information
United States
United States Navy
Lieutenant