Decidedly skilled in government, business, and organizations with successful outcomes in all through a strategy based upon competitive analysis, training, mentorship, and dynamic execution. Eric Vollmecke successfully balanced a corporate career while achieving the highest grade serving in the reserve component of the U.S. Air Force. His trademarked course, “Leaders who follow, followers who lead,” has been presented to thousands of people in both corporate and government settings, accentuating techniques for organizational execution. Eric’s civilian experience encompasses 30+ years in the IT/acquisition technology field, serving at all organizational levels from Systems/Software Engineer to Program Management to Executive Leadership. Currently, he serves as the EVP of SP Global Inc, and as president, led the successful merger of SENGEX LLC into the team in 2018. SP Global focuses on the commercialization of DOD R&D and related technologies. He has secured 3 significant wins in the first 12 months, resulting in 22% growth. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors of the internationally recognized Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, which concentrates on solving interoperability gaps with NATO and the U.S. Armed Forces. Formerly, he served as the Managing Director for Heyer America, a medical technology firm, where he led R&D initiatives that revamped its entire product line by injecting aerospace know-how into its devices to gain competitive advantage; delivering expansion in the Middle East and Asia markets. He led the planning team to start up a new assembly facility in China. Eric served as the Director of New Programs for the South Carolina Research Authority, from where he played a critical role in growing the company from $32M to $142M in six years by forging new corporate alliances providing original solutions for government clients, thus winning new multi-year anchor programs.