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Eric has been a Managing Director of Granite since July 2000 and focuses primarily on early-stage communications and Internet infrastructure companies. Eric joined Granite after spending four years in the Research department at Chase H&Q, where he was a Managing Director focused on emerging Internet and communications technologies. While at Chase H&Q, he was involved in several venture capital investments, including Cygent, Empowertel, InterNAP (NASDAQ: INAP), Paragon Software (acquired by Phone.com), Subscriber Computing (acquired by Corsair Communications), WavTrace (acquired by Harris Corporation), and VocalData. Previously, Eric was a general partner at Volpe, Welty & Company, where he launched the research effort in the telecommunications and wireless industries. Prior to that, he held senior analyst positions at Rauscher Pierce Refsnes and Morgan Keegan & Company. He currently serves on the boards of Layer N Networks and RF Magic. Eric received a B.S.E. from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. | 