Erik is a Technologist, Inventor and Advisor in Raleigh, NC who uses his passion for technology and business acumen to build technology strategies, teams and talent. He loves solving problems together in innovative ways and helping people to find teams who are passionate about working together. At VacoBuilt, Erik offers strategic consulting to CIOs while also building software development and cloud engineering teams.

Erik grew up in the Pittsburgh area and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. He now lives in North Raleigh with his wife and four children where he can be found volunteering with youth or watching youth sports.