Two founders with over a decade of institutional indexing experience.

Eric Coolbaugh is the co-founder of Strat-EG Partners, primarily responsible for product and research initiatives. He joins Strat-EG Partners after an accomplished career spearheading product innovation and development at leading index providers including Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), and S&P Global. Under his directive, he supported the creation and transition of passive products linked to tens of billions of dollars in assets under management at some of the largest buy-side institutions in the world such as BlackRock, State Street, and Invesco. Eric has also engineered index strategies captured in first-of-their-kind standardized total return swaps and credit futures that have been adopted by major global sell-side institutions and exchanges like J.P. Morgan, BNP Paribas, BMO, TD Securities, and TMX Group.

Throughout his time in the indexing space, Eric specialized in tradable products and helped to advance passive strategies in more illiquid and complex asset classes such as fixed income, commodities, and credit derivatives. He played an instrumental role in the programming and design of various rules-based strategies and platforms on which they ran. Today, he brings this expertise to his clients. Eric is an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University.

As the co-founder of Strat-EG Partners, Daniel Costa leads the firm's sales outreach and relationship management efforts. Prior to founding Strat-EG Partners, Daniel held key client-facing roles at S&P Global and the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), where he supported a sophisticated suite of data solutions including BidCOMP within the municipal primary market, Information Mosaic in the corporate actions space, and FTSE Russell indices, WMR FX benchmarks, and interest rate benchmarks like Term ESTR and Term SONIA. Spanning the full spectrum of the financial industry, Daniel's experience includes partnering with a diverse buy-side and sell-side client base. His relationships range from specialized regional asset managers to the world's largest asset owners, custodians, hedge funds, and underwriters.

Regardless of client scale or specific use case, Daniel's core philosophy remains consistent: he is deeply committed to understanding client needs in order to build the best possible data and workflow solutions. From initial introductions to post-launch support, he ensures his clients are heard and positioned to realize maximum value. Daniel is an alumnus of the University of Utah.