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Eric Wilson / peripatetic
Eric is currently CTO of Sidebar, a massively scalable discovery and recommendation platform based on machine learning and big data. Eric is responsible for the companies’ technology and product vision. Additionally he functions as the technical liaison to the investment and client community. He is deeply involved with Sidebar’s corporate strategy and fund raising activities. Eric is co-inventor or inventor for several of Sidebar’s pending patents.
Most recently, Eric was CTO of GoTV Networks, the first made-for-mobile video company. He was responsible for all technology and product distribution efforts and created a novel mobile data collection and ratings system that was used to measure unique user content consumption patterns. Eric was also a member of the executive team that provided corporate strategy and fund raising activities. GoTV was later acquired by Phunware.
Eric was a founding member and VP of Infrastructure at JAMDAT Mobile (NASDAQ: ERTS), now EA Mobile, where he was responsible for the development of the company’s gaming network services, data mining and SMS capabilities. While at JAMDAT, he co-authored patent-pending mobile data technologies and was a contributing member of the expert panel for JSR-185 (Java Technology for the Wireless Industry; JTWI). JAMDAT completed a $100MM IPO in September 2004 and was later acquired by Electronic Arts for $680MM in February 2006.
Prior to JAMDAT, Eric co-founded and led the engineering efforts for an Idealab e-commerce venture that was purchased after 10 months of operations for $45MM.
Eric was a founding engineer at Citysearch (NASDAQ: IACI), currently a division of IAC/Interactive Corp, and was responsible for the architecture and development of all the corporate and distributed sales force automation systems. Citysearch was the first Idealab venture-funded start-up company. The company merged with Ticketmaster Online in 1998. The newly combined entity went public [NASDAQ:TMCS] in Q4 of that year in one of the most successful IPOs of that decade.
