Leadership

Eric B. Dachs
Chair of the Board & CEO
Fremont Group

Eric B. Dachs is the Chairman and CEO of the Fremont Group, a single-family office. Prior to Fremont, Eric was the Founder and CEO of X2X, LLC., a technology company providing PIX, the leading software as a service (SaaS) collaboration and project management system, and the Codex hardware product line for the media and entertainment industry. Additionally, Eric joined Bechtel Corporation’s Board of Directors in 2021 and Bechtel’s Audit Committee in 2024.

With offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, London, and Budapest, X2X's flagship system, PIX, is used on over 1,000 major feature films and television productions per year from all major motion picture studios, production companies, and new media studios (including Netflix and Amazon). Over $3b in pre-release content traverses the PIX network each year. And each day, the PIX system secures, transfers, and distributes over 50,000 new video segments, photographs, 3D models, sounds, and documents from productions working worldwide.

Eric bootstrapped PIX in 2002 while working as a Sound Designer at Lucas Film on the Sony Pictures feature, Panic Room. Dissatisfied with the outdated methods for communicating between the different departments working on the film, Eric taught himself programming at night and wrote the initial prototype for what would eventually become the PIX platform. In 2019, Eric led the acquisition of UK-based Codex, LTD., the media and entertainment market leader in production hardware and high-performance SSD recording media. PIX and Codex together became X2X. That same year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Eric an Academy Award for the PIX system.

Before X2X, Eric worked as a Sound Designer and Editor at all three feature film postproduction facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Skywalker Sound, The Saul Zaentz Film Center, and American Zoetrope. Eric's film credits include The Sixth Sense, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Autumn in New York, Chocolat, and Panic Room.

Eric sits on the Board of Directors and Investment Committees at the Fremont Group. He is a member of the Bechtel Group Board of Directors, where he Chairs the Finance Committee. Eric also serves on the Wesleyan University Board of Trustees. 

Eric graduated with honors from Wesleyan University in 1998.