Erik has been an early-stage venture capitalist since 1998. He's served on over 20 boards which have generated $7.5 billion in liquidity events.  He's currently on the board of directors of Carbon Robotics, Lighter Capital, Lytics, SheerID, Shiftboard, Uplevel, and Videon.

Erik was previously responsible for Voyager's investments in aQuantive (IPO, later acquired by Microsoft), Anova Data (Ribbon Communications), Blue Box (IBM), Covario (Dentsu), CapitalStream (HCL),  Elemental Technologies (Amazon), Kryptiq (Surescripts), MakeTV (LTN Global) and Skyward (Verizon).

Prior to joining Voyager, Erik was president of Mimix which developed motion capture software for the video game industry. He began his career in investment banking with Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan).

Erik has an MBA from Harvard University and a BA in economics from PLU. He's currently on the board of trustees of the Museum of Northwest Art. Erik previously served on the boards of the National Nordic Museum and Pacific Lutheran University. He was born and raised on a crop farm in Washington State (Skagit Valley).