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New York City, New York, US

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.

Fort Worth, Texas, US

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.

New York, NY, US

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..

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.

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.

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.

New York, New York, US

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.

Waltham, MA, US

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.

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.

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.

Master Of International Affairs Degree, Economic And Political Development

Ba, International Relations, Political Science, Spanish