Eric Hoffert

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Eric Hoffert has more than twenty years of experience leading new business, product, and technology development in enterprise software, collaboration, and rich media. Eric is the CEO of ShareMethods, an on-demand sales and marketing document management and collaboration service with customers including BusinessWeek and CNET Channel. Eric also serves as the Chairman of Versatility Software Inc., a digital media management consultancy with clients including The Walt Disney Company and Stanford University.

Previously, he was Chairman and CTO for Magnifi, a digital asset management platform, where he received the Computerworld Honors Award. Prior to Magnifi, he managed Apple Computer’s Multimedia Communications Group, where he co-founded the QuickTime software project and led development of the first real-time software video compression algorithm which is now used on more than 500 million computers. While at Apple, Eric received the CEO Technical Award for the development of QuickTime software.

Eric holds sixteen US patents; has authored and co-authored papers for the ACM and IEEE; and has lectured widely around the world. Eric has been quoted in the press and his work covered in the media including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Financial Times, CIO, InfoWorld, eWeek, RedHerring, Who’s Who in America 2007. He serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Digital Asset Management.

For fun, Eric plays guitar with the Speedies, a power pop band whose music has been licensed by Hewlett Packard (for a Global TV Advertising Campaign for digital photography), and NBC, with digital albums available in Apple iTunes in 20 countries. He also works on research for large-scale renewable energy technologies that can deliver terawatts of clean power on a global basis.