Eric is a technology entrepreneur and the Head of Level39, Europe's largest accelerator space for Financial, Retail, & Smart Cities technology companies. Eric was formerly the Chief Executive of the UK’s Tech City Investment Organisation, which was tasked with boosting investment, entrepreneurship and skills in the "Silicon Roundabout" area of East London. Before his work with the UK government, Eric was a pioneering technology entrepreneur who founded fraud prevention company Adeptra, which was sold to FICO in August 2012.