Eric Shuffler: Father, husband and the Founding Partner of River Crossing Strategy Group. Eric started in government in Washington, DC on the policy side and has a long and proven history in New Jersey. He served as Chief of Staff to a United States Senator and Counselor, Chief Policy Adviser and Speechwriter to two Governors (Jim McGreevey and Dick Codey). He also served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Transportation and as the Director of the New Jersey Office of Recovery and Victim Assistance after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Eric has been called “a longtime New Jersey political insider with strong relationships across the state” and a “public policy expert and the veteran policy hand you are looking for” by the State’s leading political websites.

Eric has appeared on the Politickernj.com Power 100 List, is regularly recognized on Insider NJ’s Insider 100: Policymaker’s Edition, and recently was named the #5 lobbyist in New Jersey on Insider NJ’s top 100 lobbyists list. 

A University of Michigan graduate (GO BLUE!), Eric also graduated cum laude from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University where he went in the evenings while working on Capitol Hill.

Sports (Mets, Giants and all things baseball and sports biz), reading (history, sports, personal growth), mindfulness and his family are his passions.   

Eric is a sports entrepreneur and serves as President and Co-Owner of the Staten Island FerryHawks, a professional minor league baseball team he helped start in 2021 along with the New York Yankees and John Catsimatidis. 

He is the Chairman of the James P. Fox Memorial Fund that provides mentorships and paid public service internships to students at The College of New Jersey, Rowan University, St. Peter’s University and Kean College.   

Eric also serves on the Wagner College Holocaust Center Advisory Board and is an advisory Member for Team Israel Baseball Americas.