Eric is a highly experienced technology professional with over 35 years’ experience in the Information Technology sector. Eric is an executive level manager who has performed roles as CIO, CTO, IT Director, Managing Director, CEO and Product Director at both large corporate organizations and smaller organizations, including start-ups.Eric successfully founded / co-founded two start-ups in the Technology Products arena in the UK and USA. His initial venture, Speedchain, started operations in 2000 after raising start-up capital through VC funding in San Francisco and London. The company subsequently achieved a $20Million trade sale to a public (Nasdaq) US-based technology company, Vastera Inc. His second venture in 2003, Servisional, a CRM/BPM software product and consultancy company, was initially self-funded, but subsequent 3rd-party funding was achieved in 2006 through a public (FTSE) UK-based company. Eric then successfully negotiated a MBO of the company in 2008.After re-locating to South Africa in 2009, Eric initially performed various IT consultancy assignments before joining Alacrity Technologies. Eric held management and executive positions within Alacrity and was asked to take on the role of CEO in 2011 after playing a pivotal role in concluding the investment deal with Capital Eye Investments, a Johannesburg based private equity technology fund.Eric co-founded CBOS in 2014 together with Pieter Geyser and Gerhard Bouwer to deliver on their vision to enable and streamline business operations within and between their client organisations through the provision of advanced and innovative software solutions. CBOS celebrates its 10th year of operations in 2024.Eric has a unique combination of exco and board-level CIO experience with large corporates, having been responsible for large technology teams (150+ professionals), large annual technology budgets (R500+ Million) and large project budgets (R250+ Million) and CTO / CEO experience with start-up organizations, responsible for raising start-up capital and additional funding as well as the set-up of company processes and infrastructures. Eric is an entrepreneur with a proven track record of successful start-ups, fund-raising and value creation.