Erik comes to Tanium from AppDynamics (part of Cisco), where he spent almost five years in field sales. For the past two years, he was the CTO for the East Sales Team, which is responsible for generating more than half of the company's revenue with a focus on large financial firms in the region. Prior to that he built out and headed the Business Value Consulting team for that region. He got his start in technology at Deutsche Bank years back where he helped lead the AM Platform and Data Services Global Organization serving as COO. From there he went to a SaaS SW company called INTTRA (large global trade / shipping logistics platform). At INTTRA, he started by leading the transformation of the company into becoming product and voice of customer led. After that, he became CTO heading all global technology. Following INTTRA, he went back to Financial Services spending time running Target State Architecture as the Global Head of Enterprise Infrastructure CTO Product Management at Morgan Stanley.