Erik is a visionary inventor who has worked for multiple Fortune 500 tech companies. His accomplishments include seven patents, two paper publications, 13 years engineering experience and was an AfroTech Pitch Competition top three finalist in 2019. As an inventor and engineer, so far, he has been granted a total of seven patents. Erik averaged one patent per year for the past eight years. Five of these patents were for his work with HP. Two of these are with Audios. 

On his playlist: Outkast, Goodie Mob, This Will Destroy You, and Samuel Barber. But if you ask him this same question while he’s snowboarding, you get a totally different playlist

.Hobbies: Working out, farming, and snowboarding.