Information solutions you can trust

For over twenty years he has been at the forefront of analytical software innovation and its application to sustainability including

• Designing information platforms that support sustainability work
• • Calculating the use-value of different sustainability indicators,
  • Designing decision-oriented sustainability indicators,
  • Creating context-sensitive indicators
  • Integrating numeric indicators with text-based qualitative analysis and
• Integrating CSR/sustainability information, and their supporting technologies, with extant financial and management information systems and
• Making effective use of visualization

He has been awarded several patents in the fields of information complexity and understanding and been sought after by corporations and government agencies to solve problems in complex information modeling, analysis, and interpretation. His clients have included Intel, IBM, Oracle, AC Nielsen, the World Bank and several branches of the U.S. Government. He has significant experience in both entrepreneurial and large corporate settings.

Over the years, he has chaired a variety of industry organizations including the OLAP Council and the Analytical Solutions Forum. He has been an invited speaker, keynote or chair at many conferences and workshops. And he is the author of numerous publications for both scholarly and trade journals. He wrote the Decision Support Column for Database Programming & Design and the Analytical Solutions column for Intelligent Enterprise. He is also the author or co-author of several reference books including OLAP Solutions: Building Multidimensional Information Systems 2^nd edition, which is used around the world in both graduate computer science and MBA programs.

Erik has also been an avid practitioner of meditation for over thirty years and has participated in many fasting/meditation retreats. The insights gleaned from mediation have complemented, and sometimes even guided, his professional work.

Raised in the U.S, he lived in a number of countries including Canada, France, Spain, Belgium and Denmark (Greenland) before settling in Cambridge, MA. He speaks French and Spanish, loves hiking, skiing, biking, history, music, and local foods. He is married with three young children.

1. Information science and technology

� Multidimensional databases: a world recognized authority

o Core industry patent for multi layered variables applied to multi leveled hierarchies

o Author of standard reference books used around the world as well as many other publications

o Co-founded the first company acquired in the field

� Visualization

o Consultant to chief architects in the visualization companies AVS and Visual Insights, plus at Intel

o Multiple patent filings for visualizing high dimensional data

� Multi-modal recognition and representation systems

o Recent patent filings, software prototypes

o Selected by Oracle to provide their visual recognition and semantic search capabilities for a major gov't contract

o Architect for a multi modal planning prototype for the Air Force Research laboratories

o Architect for a multi modal world model for the U.S. Navy

� Natural language understanding

o Recent patent filing, software prototypes,

o Architect for interpretation engine prototype for U.S Army

o Invited speaker at MITRE (a national research institute)

� Information valuation

o Published computational techniques in scholarly and trade publications

o Used by branches of the U.S. government

� Performance management

o Distinguished scientist at Hyperion Solutions responsible for performance management strategies and architecture from 2002-2007 when they were acquired by Oracle

2. Integrated socio-economic-environmental information systems for corporations and governments

� Groundbreaking work at the World Bank

o Designed and implemented the first software for integrated local and national level socio-economic-environmental indicator systems, e.g.,

� Environmental model for the first Earth Summit in Rio

� The Bank's 50^th anniversary model of the world's well being and poverty

o Designed the logic for aggregating irregular data

� World Bank's system of national accounts (SNA)

o Designed logic for multi-layered context-sensitive indicators

o Designed logic for aggregating service level indicators for capital

o Designed logic for assessing information quality and detecting data source errors

� Consultant to the environment ministry in Abu Dhabi

o Integrating national level socio economic environmental accounting

o Calculating the value of water in national accounts

o Using smart information grids as a platform for sustainability

� Member of the expert group for Yale's Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI)

� Spearheaded Hyperion's sustainability reporting and its integration with their management reporting

� Member of the expert group on next generation sustainability indicators sponsored by Egypt's Library of Alexandria

� As CEO with responsibility for product marketing and strategy at Gaia Metrics

o Designed service offerings for

� Providing structured analyses of stakeholders' word-oriented views

� Ranking stakeholder views by stakeholder interest level and business relevance

� Linking structured analyses of text with numeric indicators

� Performance indicator benchmarking by industry and time

� Casting environmental and social performance into measures of financial risk

Sampling of public presentations

� Invited speaker at the Library of Alexandria's public session on the use of smart information grids for improving sustainability indicators

� Invited speaker at Environment Agency Abu Dhabi's workshop on managing sustainability information

� Invited speaker at multiple Hyperion user conferences in the U.S. and in Europe on integrating CSR reporting with extant management information systems

� Invited speaker as a part of the Air Force Research Laboratories distinguished speaker series on new Frontiers in Information Science and Technology

� Featured speaker at a series of Business Intelligence seminars hosted by Cognos Corporation in Toronto, Vancouver, Philadelphia; Topic: Enterprise Business Intelligence in the New Economy

� Invited track chair at SIGIR for "integrating structured and unstructured data" in Washington D.C.

� Invited speaker at Intel's IMKD forum on "Integrating Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management"

� Invited speaker at the CIA on "Building Multidimensional Information Systems"

� Invited keynote speaker at the Paper Industry Management Association IT conference on "Building Multidimensional Information systems for Manufacturing"

� Invited speaker for IBC conference on data mining for telecommunications Integrating OLAP and data mining for telecommunications analysis

� Opening keynote speaker at the ACM Conference for Information and Knowledge Management in Virginia.
Topic: Research Opportunities for Analytical Systems

� Invited speaker at Madrid Technical University on building Multidimensional Information systems

� Invited as the DSS expert for Intel's CEO for his keynote address at Oracle Open World

� Invited speaker Inter Op on decision support standards

� Invited speaker at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center on the relationship between foundational disciplines and software-based information modeling

Sampling of industry publications (titles only)

� Ensuring future profits -through CSR reporting,

� Assigning value to information,

� Understanding different types of analytical models: transformation, path, zone and value state

� How to build a customer value state model

� Integrating data and knowledge

� Architectural requirements for information portals

� The challenge of using multiple dimensions of the same type within a single data set

� Integrating OLAP, data mining and visualization

� Understanding the types and sources of uncertainty and how to work with them

� A functional approach to decision support

� Auditing dimensional formulas

� Smart decision support systems

� Using data mining, OLAP and visualization to classify otherwise anonymous purchasing behaviour

� The principles of data visualization

� How to think clearly in N-dimensions

Sampling of Foundational Publications

� A Functional Basis for Tractarian Number Theory
presented at the Wittgenstein Symposium on the Foundations of Mathematics
Austria 1992; published in Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
Verlag Holder-Pichler-Tempsky Wien 1993

� A Tractarian Approach to Information Modeling
presented at the Wittgenstein Symposium on the Foundations of Language
Austria 1989; published in Wittgenstein-Towards a Re-evaluation
Verlag Holder-Pichler-Tempsky Wien 1990