With more than 20 years of experience in high tech, Eric’s experience spans multiple areas including user experience, strategy, software development and engineering, direct and indirect sales and post-sales enablement and readiness, and customer education.

At Splunk, Eric enables Splunk’s pursuit of a disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone to turn data into doing - through enablement and education. Leading a Global Enablement and Education team, he drives strategy development and execution by proactively working with Customers, Partners, Customer Success, Sales, and Engineering to innovate, develop and deliver learning solutions that build capabilities globally to ensure the world can bring data to every question, every decision and every action and thrive in the Data Age. Prior to joining Splunk, Eric was at Visa briefly and then NetApp for 10+ years where he held multiple leadership roles focused on learning and enablement. The last 4+ years at NetApp, Eric was VP, Global Enablement and Education, and Head of NetApp University. In this role, Eric was responsible for delivering timely, innovative and effective programs that accelerate performance improvement to achieve business outcomes. With industry recognized certifications and comprehensive learning solutions, he ensured that NetApp employees, partners and customers globally had the skills required to effectively build, sell, architect, deploy, and manage solutions that address NetApp’s clients most challenging data needs now and in the future.

Prior to joining NetApp in 2009, Eric held multiple global leadership roles in his 12 years at IBM across Information Management Software Engineering, Sales Enablement and Research.