During his 25+ years in the software industry, Eric Schurr has held leadership positions in general management, product strategy, and marketing in companies ranging from startups to leading global enterprises, including IBM, Rational Software, SQA, and Cognos. His experiences range from driving a startup's explosive growth and successful IPO to being the chief marketing officer for the world's 23rd largest software company.
Eric is now VP marketing for Awareness, a company who provides a hosted platform where enterprises can deploy Web 2.0 technologies to achieve real business benefits. Prior to Awareness, Eric was VP of worldwide marketing for IBM's Rational software division after IBM acquired Rational. Eric was Rational's chief marketing officer, and he founded and ran the business unit that produced a milestone product line that generated over 1/3 of Rational's new product revenue within two years. At SQA, Eric drove the company's product and marketing strategy and was a key member of the executive team that took the company public.
Eric was also an executive in residence at Greylock Partners, and he is on the board of Active EndPoints, a start up company building leading software in the BPEL market. |