Flagship application: Conveyr.ai

Leveraging modern construction sales and marketing methodologies to develop, deploy and execute sales and integrated marketing strategies. Growing under-penetrated accounts and expanding relationships with key multi-national enterprise. Hiring, on-boarding, training and managing distributed field based business development and marketing teams.

Driving product strategy and development for SignalWire.

Building successful Dialpad client deployments across the globe.

http://hookflash.com

Gaboogie is re-inventing the audio conferencing industry. We're transforming an experience that's frustrating and archaic into something seamless and elegant.

Responsible for delivering the next generation hosted SMB (Small and Medium Business) applications for the company and customers.

Advisor to the company prior to its acquisition by eBay/Skype (April 2006)

At Xten Erik was responsible for daily operations (Product Strategies, Marketing, Sales and Engineering) and conceptualizing the features and functionality for Xten products and identifying the best market opportunities. Erik designed the softphone products and go-to-market strategies.He was instrumental in growing Xten from 3 to 40+ people and bringing the company from conception/zero revenue to more than 3 Million in sales on award-winning product in less than 2 years. Xten customers acquired during Erik's stay include Yahoo!, Vonage, Deutsche Telekom and 55+ carriers, OEMs, and Portals. Erik's understanding of the VoIP industry and his ability to uncover opportunities in the market provided Xten with the perceived lead in the industry for SIP softphones and contributed greatly to Xten winning 6 industry awards.

Corporate vision, operations, product design.

Before Xten, Erik was the CEO and founder of Vocalscape Communications Inc., a Canadian VoIP and eCRM start-up. Vocalscape went from 3 people in Erik's basement to 30 people in 2 years winning several technology awards and obtaining many technology research grants from the Canadian government. The company was eventually bought.

Owner/operator/chief pilot. Authored and maintained Canadian OC (Operators Certificate), leased, flew and maintained commercial rotary wing aircraft. Spent many months swatting black flies north of Yellowknife while flying for now wealthy geologists.

Flying grids, looking for kimberlite/diamond indicators with a long-line magnetometer.