Mr. Eric Janszen
Founder and President
iTulip, Inc.
Eric Janszen has 28 years' executive experience in high technology, finance, and economics. CEO of two venture capital backed companies, previously VP sales and VP marketing at several successful start-up companies, and managing director of a seed stage venture capital firm, he founded economics and finance forecasting and analysis firm iTulip, Inc. in 1998. As EIR of Trident Capital he performed due diligence on several sectors of the energy industry. Eric Janszen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Currently Founder and President of iTulip, Inc., the global online economics and financial markets community founded in 1998 with more than ten million visitors from 78 countries that Gill Griffeth of CNBC calls "...the place to go for a contrary view of the markets" and The New York Times credits for accurate forecasts of future economic developments.
Previously President and CEO of RF control technology company AutoCell Laboratories, Inc., Entrepreneur in Residence at $1.6B venture capital firm Trident Capital, President and CEO of Bluesocket, Inc. and Managing Director of seed stage investment firm Osborn Capital. Between 1998 and 2003, Osborn Capital saw six successful exits out of 20 portfolio companies, including two IPOs and four acquisitions (Cisco, Microsoft, EMC and Nortel).
As CEO, raised more than $30M in venture capital between 2001 and 2004.
Previously held executive operating roles in system software engineering, product management, product marketing and sales for Boston area high technology companies, including two that went public, Media 100 and Stratus Computer.
Serves and has served on on more than a dozen boards of directors as board observer or board director and several advisory boards.
Board Director Member of Massachusetts Networking and Communications Council. Board of Advisors: Twin Focus Capital Partners, Progress Partners, and Fotki.
Writes for several online and printed publications and newspaper, including Bankrate.com 1999-2001, AlwaysOn Network 2004-2005, Harper's Magazine, The Independent, New Zealand, Sitz der Gesellschaft: Manchen Germany, Harvard Business Review and iTulip.com.
Co-Author of "America's Bubble Economy" by John Wiley & Sons. 2006.
Author of printed Harper's Magazine Feb. 2008 cover article "The Next Bubble" and Nov. 2008 article "Reindustrialize".
Speaker at dozens of industry events, including: The Money's Back - Stanford (2005), Trends in Capital Markets - MIT (2004), Finding Hope in the Tech Rubble - Harvard (2003), Keynote Speaker at Hard Assets Conference (2007), panelist at HedgeWorld conference in NYC April 2008, Speaker at Nantucket Conference (2009), and Innovators Summit of Mass. Networking & Communications Council (June, 2009).
Frequently interviewed and quoted on CNBC, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, USA Today, BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Italian, German, Australian, CBCNews.CA, and other international media.
