As Senior Vice President for Special Projects at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), Eric advances IST’s overall vision and strategy to lead and support initiatives across IST’s pillars, including spearheading the Applied Trust & Safety program.

Eric brings his over two decades of experience developing programs, policies, products, and teams that safeguard consumer and platform Trust & Safety, Security, and Privacy to impactful initiatives across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He has held executive roles at companies like Symantec and Google, where he founded Google's first Trust & Safety team, Anti-Malvertising program, and the Android Security Operations and Intel team, in addition to his other product policy and public policy leadership roles. Throughout his career, Eric has convened and advised civic and private sector organizations on these critical topics, on elections integrity and artificial intelligence implications, and on other emerging issues.