Erik has been an early-stage venture capitalist since joining Voyager in 1998. He currently represents Voyager on the board of directors of Carbon Robotics, SheerID, Shiftboard, Uplevel, and Videon. Erik is also the founder and director of alternative financing leader Lighter Capital.

Erik was originally responsible for Voyager's investments in Act-On Software (acquired: Banzai), Anova Data (acquired: Ribbon Communications), aQuantive (acquired: Microsoft), Blue Box (acquired: IBM), Covario (acquired: Dentsu), CapitalStream (acquired: HCL Technologies),  Elemental Technologies (acquired: Amazon Web Services), Kryptiq (acquired: Surescripts), Lytics (acquired: ContentStack), MakeTV (acquired: LTN Global) and Skyward (acquired: 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 in NYC with Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan).

Erik has an MBA from HBS and a BA in economics from PLU. He's currently on the board of trustees of the Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA). He was born and raised on a crop farm in Skagit Valley, Washington.