Eric co-founded and edits Freshwater Venture with Keith Schacht, and he chairs the Chicago board of the Taproot Foundation with Adam Hecktman, Chris Morgan, Charles Coustan. He's worked with Zach Kaplan and Josh Metnick as an advisor to their respective companies. He was CEO of Katabat Corporation, acquired in 2005 by Trader Publishing/Dominion. He built the company with Dave Sidwell, Ara Bayindiryan, and many others (with a financial assist from Bob Geras). Prior to Katabat, Eric was at Giant Step with Kate Edwards, Eric Heneghan, Mike Ruffalo, Rishad Tobaccowala, Mike Leff, Sean Chou and Mike Sands before the company was acquired by Leo Burnett. Eric graduated from the University of Michigan and Kellogg. In January, he's headed to Google.
> Google
> Taproot Foundation
> Inventables
> Chicago.com
> Katabat
> Giant Step
> Kellogg
> U of M
