# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erik-prince
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:14:35.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erik-prince"
name: "Erik Prince"
slug: "erik-prince"
description: "Erik Dean Prince is an American businessman, who is the founder of private military contractor Blackwater. He was Blackwater's CEO until 2009 and its chairman until its sale to a group of investors in 2010. Prince founded the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group in 2012 and was chairman of the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group until 2021. Prince is the son of engineer and businessman Edgar Prince, and the brother of former U.S. secretary of education Betsy DeVos."
tagline: "American businessman, former US Navy SEAL officer and the founder of the private military company Blackwater"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erik_Prince_by_Gage_Skidmore_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1969-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.067943621250452
  historical:           19.713896
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 244
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump