Eric Frank, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Flat World Knowledge

June 7, 2009 · Posted in Speaker Bios

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Eric was born and raised in Boston, and has lived in Philadelphia and New York. Sometimes, he gets confused and thinks that Pittsburgh is the west coast. He used to have more diverse passions in life, but now, as co-founder of three concurrent startups– two-year old Miya, one-year old Emma, and Flat World Knowledge, also one, his passions have become singularly focused: the pursuit of sleep. It may be a while yet.

Eric brings an 11 year track record of success in higher education publishing. He has held positions in sales, editorial, and marketing at Thomson (now Cengage –so much more 2.0-ish, yes?) and Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. Recently, Eric was Director of Marketing for Prentice Hall Business Publishing, a division with annual sales in the hundreds of millions. There, he managed a team of marketing managers and marketing communications staff, and had overall responsibility for strategy, budget, staffing and execution. Eric’s group had dotted line responsibility for training and supporting over 160 sales representatives.

It must be said that given a choice, Eric much prefers a hug from his co-founder, Mayu, of the non-Flat World ventures. That said, a nice hug from Jeff every once in a while is okay, too.

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