Mobile Global is a boutique strategy firm focused on web and mobile business-building and advice. The company is engaged with a small number of Internet and mobile startups, as well as social enterprises, advising them on growth and development. It also looks to incubate and develop promising startup concepts.

ConsenSys is building the decentralized future. I formed a team, raised funding and led prototype development for delegated voting products on ethereum, and signed initial customers. Laster guided spin out from the incubator. Also analyzed & led a variety of investment deals via internal funding platform.

Eric teaches "Technology Solutions for International Development and Social Change" in Columbia's International Affairs Masters Program, and serves as faculty supervisor to a ICT-related student projects. His course enables students to identify and explore a problem area they wish to solve investigating its contours and the reality of those it affects. Next, they form teams to review potential technology solutions, design Minimum Viable Products and in the "final exam" pitch those concepts to professional Venture Capitalists for feedback. Several course teams are still operating the businesses created in the course, and creating global impact.

Advised accelerator cohort IoT businesses on fundraising, pricing, business models and team-building.

Eric led development and deployment of fintech product that improves cash flow and helps workers avoid payday loans, under a cross-industry joint venture. Under his leadership, the product team researched, prototyped and tested various iterations of the product with hundreds of users prior to launching via B2B channel. WageGoal has been recognized as leading Fintech venture by participation in JPMC/CFSI Financial Solution Labs’ first cohort and in other forums.

Venture for America is a program for young, talented grads to spend 2 years in the trenches of a start-up with the goal that these graduates will become socialized and mobilized as entrepreneurs moving forward. As a founding board member, Eric works with the team to help align resources, strategy and tactics to enable the organization to fulfill its mission.

Evaluating the potential for a social venture seed fund, we diligenced more than twenty-five socially impactful technology businesses and made investments in four. Recommended a growth strategy for the organization which led to establishing an impact lab later acquired by Robin Hood. Several ventures from the initial cohort have grown to generate substantial impact.

Eric established a Google-funded mobile product lab and built its 35-member team. He led product prototyping and development for 14 concepts, leading more than 100 contributors across Google, MTN, AppLab and local NGOs. Designed, tested and built “Google SMS Health”, which launched nationally & won Social & Economic Development Product of the Year at 2010 GSM World Summit. AppLab tests, develops and scales mobile phone services that empower low-income customers to improve their lives. Eric developed a suite of SMS search products - later launched as Google SMS - that served more than 4 million queries from 300,000 Ugandans. Under Eric's leadership, the Joint Venture between MTN Uganda, Google, and Grameen Foundation subsequently raised $4.7 million in seed funding from Gates Foundation to build the Community Knowledge Worker(CKW) business - an Android-based mobile applications suite through a microfranchise business model to automate information flows between farmer production and marketing groups and agricultural buyers. Eric helped develop similar opportunities in Ghana and Indonesia in the areas of mobile health and informal sector job matching. He also worked closely with the MTN Mobile Money product team to integrate mobile money services into AppLab products and processes.

Acumen Fund invests in pro-poor businesses in East Africa and South Asia. Eric held a variety of positions in its early phases. He raised funding to create a Business Technology Solutions Team, for which he sourced a pipeline of 12 potential technology & energy investments and initiated a number of prototype concepts for using mobile phones to reach underserved market segments. He established the renowned Acumen Fellows Program, hiring the first 8 of what would become a corps of hundreds of oustanding social entrepreneurs. He opened the East Africa regional office in Kenya with the firm's founding Africa Director.

BuyDomains.com was a domain name marketplace which reached $8 million in sales before its acquisition by a venture fund consortium in Massachusetts in an $80 million transaction. Eric recruited and coordinated more than 10 professional employees and outside contractor firms, selected, managed and closed strategic industry partnerships, and managed investment bankers and other contacts in the investment community through the company's sale. He also worked with web developers to maintain a high-traffic Website conducting e-commerce in six languages and innovated on its back-end optimization processes.

Verio acquired 55 leading local Internet service providers and hosting companies in the US to form one of the largetst publicly-held ISPs and backbones, including Internet Interstate which Eric founded. It was subsequently sold to NTT of Japan. During his tenure as Eastern Region Vice President of Marketing and Sales Engineering,acquisitions, Eric headed marketing, sales training and product management for nine offices and more than 250 employees after Verio's completion of 15 acquisitions in the Northeast. He drove the launch of the first national DSL product. Eric oversaw the marketing team and an independent Web Development business unit. He created and executed national sales contest 'Verio Main Event' for over 200 sales professionals across country, led due diligence for the integration of three internal web development groups, and managed large international telecom industry accounts providing trans-atlantic connectivity, transit and co-location. He also led a regional team of sales engineers engaged in technical training of a sales force of 50 sales professionals. Prior to NTT's acquisition of Verio, Eric also managed a team of product managers and headed business development partnerships related to Verio's B2C and B2B eCommerce product strategy.

Internet Interstate was an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the Washington DC metropolitan area which Eric co-founded and built up to a $3M run rate and a team of 28 prior to acquisition by Verio. Eric managed complex domestic and international customer relationships, planned and executed two acquisitions and integrations of local competitors, and led engineering, operations and financial functions to grow and manage the business. He also represented the company in acquisition and due diligence process leading up to a $7M transaction, and ensured a smooth transition to the new integrated structure.