Erik graduated from Stanford with a bachelors degree in Computer Science (2001), right when things were getting hot in Silicon Valley. He immediately moved to the Cote d’Azur to work on his French. Since then he has lived and worked in Barcelona, Bahia, Boston, Mexico City, New York, and now Paris where he went back to school for an Executive MBA with the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (2016). He has built software and run teams for companies like Amadeus, MetaCarta, TravelTripper, Google, and Criteo.