Résumé
Updated September 2026
Eric Tribe
Senior operator. I work with the teams building new ventures, inside big companies and in startups, so the wins start showing up on the board.
Ex-Flashfood CRO, 4 to 2,000+ stores. McKinsey Leap and BCG. Partner at Pioneer Square Labs and founder of Tribe Ventures.
Four lanes, each with its own proof
Build
New ventures inside and alongside large companies.
Designed Honda's venture-building engine and the team that now runs it. Global Lead for McKinsey Leap. Venture builder at BCG. Head of the innovation studio at Pioneer Square Labs.
6 monthsidea to CEO-ready program at Honda
Partner
Corporate partnerships, business development, corporate development.
Corporate partnerships lead at Pioneer Square Labs. Venture programs with Fortune 150 partners. VP Partnerships, then CRO, at Flashfood, where the enterprise grocery deals took the footprint from 4 stores to 2,000+.
2,000+stores contracted through enterprise partnerships
Scale
From early traction to a national footprint.
Built and led the Flashfood marketplace as CRO and Chief Marketplace Officer. 50M pounds of food diverted and $120M saved by shoppers by 2022; 145M+ pounds and $370M+ today, anchored by Meijer, Giant Eagle and Stop & Shop.
$370M+value delivered to shoppers
Transform
Large operating and profit improvements.
Principal at BCG and Global Topic Lead for AI/ML personalization. Led major transformations for global enterprises across retail and airlines, with AI-enabled work well before AI was the headline.
$250M+incremental revenue delivered
Experience
- 2024 – Present
Tribe Ventures
Founder
Operator and advisor to founders and to the corporate innovation leaders who need ventures to launch and scale.
- 2025 – Present
Pioneer Square Labs
Partner, Head of Innovation Studio
Lead the innovation studio and its corporate partnerships for an AI-native venture studio building with Fortune 100 partners.
- 2022 – 2024
McKinsey & Company
Expert Associate Partner
Global Lead for Leap, the firm's new-business-building practice. Corporate venture and partnership programs for Fortune 150 clients.
- 2019 – 2022
FlashfoodToronto
Chief Revenue Officer; earlier VP Partnerships and Chief Marketplace Officer
Early employee. Led the enterprise grocery partnerships that took the footprint from 4 to 2,000+ stores across North America.
- 2008 – 2019
Boston Consulting Group
Principal
Global Topic Lead for AI/ML Personalization. Delivered $250M+ in incremental revenue across retail and airlines.
The operator record · Flashfood, 2019–2022 and since
Retail footprint built from 4 to a 2,000+ store contracted pipeline across North America.
Food kept out of landfill through the enterprise grocery marketplace I built and led. 50M by the time I left in 2022, and still compounding.
Saved by shoppers across the marketplace, anchored by Meijer, Giant Eagle, and Stop & Shop. $120M by 2022, per Flashfood's impact reporting.
Education
- Harvard Business School
- Ivey Business School
Writing
Weekly at Infinite Momentum. Essays, the Operating Rhythm field guide and the 30-Point AI Vendor Test are collected at erictribe.com/momentum.
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