Eric Facas

Eric is the founder and CEO of Media Cause, a digital marketing agency that works exclusively with nonprofits and causes. Media Cause launched in 2010 and has worked with over 50 US nonprofits, global NGOs and local community foundations. Eric is also the founder and President of Social Good Labs, an incubator for new nonprofits and social good startups. As a social entrepreneur and advisor, Eric is passionate about developing scalable solutions to global issues by leveraging the power of the internet and technology.

In 2009, Eric was a co-founder of Tallwave, a startup/business accelerator and was responsible for building the companies second portfolio company, Ethology, a digital advertising agency. Prior to Tallwave, Eric spent five years at Google where he played a significant role in important program launches, built new teams, and ran Google’s SEM/Agency councils. Eric received an EMG/Founder’s award from Google’s Executive Management Group for his work on the creation and rollout of the multi-billion dollar AdWords API program in 2008. Before joining Google in 2004, Eric worked with several online media startups including America Online after receiving a degree in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Eric lives in Marin County, CA with his family.