Erik spent 15 years in Silicon Valley at the bleeding edge of the convergence of entertainment and technology. In the late '80s he was an independent developer of interactive videodiscs and CD-ROMs. In the early '90s he was employee number 7 at ICTV, a pioneer in interactive television. He was the product manager for the deployment of one of the first digital video on demand systems that ran on Cox Cable's Omaha, Nebraska system. In early 1997 he went to Yahoo! Inc. where he created the entertainment group. In that role he managed the team that built Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! TV, Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Radio and Yahoo! Entertainment. Erik drove the concept and managed the development of Yahoo! Games, the leading online casual games site.

Today, Erik is the co-founder and CEO of Foneshow, Inc., which mobilizes the radio industry and changes it from a broadcast model to a on-demand narrowcast model. Foneshow has built a telephony-based distribution platform for short-form audio (primarily news/talk radio and podcast programming). The platform leverages the cellular telephone network and enables users to subscribe to, access, publish, share, and consume short-form audio programming immediately from virtually any cell phone. The system features the very rapid propagation of programming from the creator to the consumer. Patents are pending on aspects of his technology.

When he's not working in technology Erik sails across oceans singlehanded. Erik has more than 10,000 solo miles under sail, including the 2002 and 2004 singlehanded transpacific races and three solo transpacific passages. Infrequently you may also find Erik performing on stage in light opera, even more infrequently you may find him directing theatrical productions. Erik, his wife and their three kids live in Bath, Maine where they are (slowly) restoring a 157 year old shipbuilding magnate's mansion overlooking the Kennebec River.