Eric Braun

Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary

Oak Brook, Illinois, United States

About

Chief Legal Officer of Hub Group, Inc., North America’s leading intermodal transportation and logistics provider. Seasoned legal professional with broad experience in commercial, compliance, corporate, and a variety of specialty areas. Development-minded people leader. Dedicated professional with enterprise and growth mindset.

Experience

  • Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary at Hub Group
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    I serve as the Chief Legal Officer at Hub Group, Inc.

  • Caterpillar Inc. (7 yrs 10 mos)
    • Vice President & Deputy General Counsel
      Feb 2022 - Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Served as General Counsel of Caterpillar’s Energy & Transportation Segment and lead the Global Litigation team. Privileged to lead the talented group of legal professionals Embedded with, Enabling and Protecting Caterpillar’s business.

    • Chief Compliance Officer, Deputy General Counsel — Compliance & I.P.
      Dec 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Provided compliance, trade and IP counsel to each of Caterpillar’s global business segments, oversaw and continuously improved Caterpillar’s compliance program, and managed the talented team of professionals that support Caterpillar businesses on trade, IP, data, and compliance matters globally

    • Deputy General Counsel — Commercial & Regional
      Jan 2018 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs

      Provided commercial and full-service legal support to each of Caterpillar’s global business segments: Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation; also support Distribution and Aftermarket. - Served Segment Counsel to Construction Industries. - Led the talented team of legal professionals that are embedded with and support Caterpillar businesses globally.

  • General Counsel at Progress Rail, A Caterpillar Company
    Aug 2015 - Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    - Served as General Counsel for Caterpillar’s rail business - Managed the team of legal professionals that support Caterpillar's Rail Division operations worldwide, involving hundreds manufacturing, sales, service and maintenance locations. - Handled and managed a broad array of commercial, regulatory, corporate compliance, and litigation matters. - Demonstrated ability to effectively lead teams of diverse professionals on complex legal matters.

  • General Counsel at Perkins Engines Company Limited
    Aug 2012 - Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Served as GC of Perkins Engines Company Ltd. (a Caterpillar company) and managed the team of legal professionals that provide full-service legal support to Caterpillar's diverse business units in the United Kingdom. Included legal support on commercial, corporate, distribution, litigation, regulatory, property and some employment related matters.

  • Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois)
    • Senior Corporate Counsel, Regulatory
      2010 - Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Assumed management of the team of regulatory lawyers and paralegals that provide Environmental, Health & Safety, Product Regulatory and Data Privacy legal services to the global Caterpillar enterprise. Continued to focus substantively on Product Regulatory and Environmental matters, as well as Sustainability related issues. Added responsibility for Data Privacy, including global Data Privacy compliance program development, serving as the enterprise Data Privacy risk owner.

    • Corporate Counsel, Product Regulatory
      2006 - 2010 · 4 yrs

    • Attorney, Environmental, Health & Safety, Product Regulatory
      2004 - 2006 · 2 yrs