Eric Thacker

Eric Thacker has a diverse experience in the field of marketing and cybersecurity. Eric worked as the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at S2 Cyber, providing organizations with automated, tailored assessments of cybersecurity risk. Eric was also the Principal and Fractional CMO at IT Experts, providing executive-level fractional marketing leadership to early stage startups and marketing consulting for larger companies in various sectors. Eric served as Head of Marketing at Armor Defense, Open source MDR/SOC, XDR, and GRC cybersecurity services. Eric was the Senior Director Marketing at CloudPhysics, owned marketing strategy for Big Data SaaS IT startup providing deep analytics for VMware virtual environments leveraging machine learning and AI. Eric also served as the Director, Cloud Storage Product Marketing at Riverbed Technology focusing on data backup, archive and replication to the public cloud. Finally, Eric was an Advisor and later CMO and Head of Partnerships at Tinosys, delivering instant insights from all application and corporate data assets as a simple yet powerful analytics platform.

Eric Thacker is a highly educated individual with a diverse educational background. Eric started with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from Cornell University, after which they pursued a Junior Year Abroad program in Physics and Economics at the University of Bristol. Eric also completed a Japanese Language Studies program at the Inter-University Center. Later, Eric returned to school at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where they earned an MBA, MA, and is currently a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) in Business and Economics.