By Mike Burke on October 8, 2025October 8, 2025 Great Valley Advisor Group is excited to welcome Eric Hough to our Asset Management Team! Eric Hough joins GVA as Director of Asset Management, specializing in Alternative Investments. In this role, he will oversee portfolio strategy, manage fund investments, and build lasting investor relationships. With extensive Wall Street experience and deep expertise in alternative assets, Eric is well-positioned to deliver meaningful value to clients while advancing the firm’s long-term growth initiatives. Eric earned his Bachelor of Science in Finance, magna cum laude, from Providence College in 2002. He began his 15-year Wall Street career at Credit Suisse Securities USA, where he served as a Portfolio Manager in the firm’s internal multi-manager hedge fund division, Systematic Strategies Group. There, he successfully managed a $4 billion Index Arbitrage strategy and a $100 million Long-Short Event Driven Opportunistic portfolio. In 2019, Eric founded Scire Capital Partners LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor focused on delivering customized investment solutions for high-net-worth families. Based in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Eric lives with his wife and three young sons. Outside the office, he enjoys coaching youth baseball, basketball, and flag football. When he’s not on the sidelines, he’s working on his golf game and cheering on his beloved Boston sports teams, much to the good-natured dismay of his Philadelphia neighbors. Mike Burke Manager, Advisor Websites & Marketing After graduating from Penn State University with a B.A. in English, Mike began his career in B2B technology sales, learning how to close deals and, most importantly, developing thick skin. He then took on an operations and management role at a marketing firm, where he recognized a gap in the company’s capabilities and taught himself to design, code, and build websites while handling the day-to-day company operations and managing client relationships. Discovering his passion for design and technology and building up a web design and UX work portfolio, Mike spent the next six years at Comcast, fulfilling various roles on the digital and e-commerce teams, from UX designer to front-end developer to his final role as a Senior Art Director. After transitioning into management consulting, he was on the road for three years, working with enterprise-level companies such as Microsoft, Aon, and Vanguard and expanding his skill set from digital and web to organizational strategy and management. See Full Bio