Eric is an experienced technology executive who has led multiple Silicon Valley companies to success.Prior to joining as CEO of BlueTalon, Eric was an Executive-in-Residence at Scale Venture Partners, a leading expansion-stage venture capital firm with an extensive Cloud, SaaS, and big data portfolio.Before ScaleVP, Eric was a General Manager for Zynga, where he ran one of the company’s largest and most profitable studios and developed and executed strategies that significantly increased player lifetime value. Eric has been CEO of two prior venture-backed startups, Netcentives (which he co-founded) and Answers.com, both of which had successful IPO’s.Eric’s earlier career includes product management leadership positions at Oracle Corporation and Intuit Inc. He has also driven customer success as a consultant with Bain & Company. Eric holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, summa cum laude, from Princeton University.When not helping BlueTalon’s clients create business success through Data Collaboration, Eric loves spending time with family, hiking, music, whitewater rafting, and adventure travel.