Rich Erickson
Updata Partners
Mr. Erickson is based in Updata s Edison, New Jersey office and sits on the
boards of directors of Updata portfolio companies, Acclaris, HotGigs, Interactions
and Red Vision.
He joined Updata in 2004, bringing more than 20 years of executive experience
in the IT industry. As President and CEO of AlphaNet Solutions Inc., Erickson
drove the restructuring and sale of the publicly-held IT outsourcing company to
CIBER. Prior to this, he led a similar effort at iXL, an Internet application
consulting firm, in its public-to-public company merger with Scient. From 1987
until 1997, as one of two principals of Digital Network Associates (DNA), a
private network and systems integrator, he guided the growth of the company
through its ultimate sale United States Office Products (USOP). Erickson
started his career at Excelan, one of the TCP/IP Internet network pioneers.
Mr. Erickson holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Villanova University.