Most recently Eric led Fungible Inc, as the CEO, until acquired by Microsoft. Eric has consistently built and grown technology businesses for more than 25 years. He has managed businesses exceeding $500M in revenue with a global workforce of several hundred reports across several countries. After studying high-speed semiconductor design and fabrication at Georgia Tech, Eric began his career at Motorola in silicon design and moved on to mobile infrastructure implementation. Eric established his career at Broadcom, Cavium, Marvell, and Inphi by marketing and general management of semiconductors for high-speed networking infrastructure for the Cloud, Telecom, and Enterprise equipment market segments. At Broadcom, he was instrumental in creating the ‘White Box’ switch business, revolutionizing the hyperscaler data center switch market to catapult Broadcom into the undisputed leader of switching silicon and growing revenue from less than $100M/yr. to over $1B/yr. Eric has a proven ability to grow market share by collaborating with customers and working closely with engineering. He develops the vision, sets strategy, constructs roadmaps, and delivers award-winning products that get customers to production. Eric is passionate about building high-performance teams and mentoring high-potential individual contributors for career growth. Prior to Fungible, Eric served as Inphi's Senior Vice President and General Manager of the High-Speed Connectivity business unit reporting to the CEO. In this role he grew the company's multi-hundred-million-dollar PAM4 DSP business; overseeing Hardware and Software Engineering development, Product Management / Marketing, Signal and System Architecture, as well as Application Engineering. Eric drove the annual strategic plan, committed to an annual operating plan, and delivered on the committed P&L. In this role Eric set the long-term vision, expanded the roadmap, and organized the engineering team to deliver 3x revenue growth in 3 years. Eric has been responsible for driving and integrating multiple private company acquisitions over his career. He has made successful corporate investments, participated on multiple startup boards, and is currently advising CEOs of multiple startups . Eric also has extensive experience with acquisitions and merging large organizations and product roadmaps.Fungbile (acq. by MSFT) Silicon Spice (acq. by BRCM), Cavium (acq. by MRVL), and Inphi (acq. by MRVL); BRCM (acq. Lvl7; Sandburst, Dune-Israel); Cavium (acq. Xpliant); Inphi (acq. eSilicon, Arrive-Vietnam).