Eric Eskey
Strategy Adviser
Biography: Eric Eskey has worked with numerous technology, financial services, medical, information and industrial companies to identify market opportunities, assess technological alternatives and bring breakthrough solutions to the market.
Prior to joining Strategyn five years ago, Eric led and managed the R&D program team at Hewlett-Packard, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of several high-volume, hard-copy printing and imaging devices targeted at the personal and small work team markets. During his six years with HP, he led product co-development relationships with Japanese and Swedish partners and oversaw joint delivery programs in Singapore, Malaysia and China.
Besides contributing to the ongoing development of Strategyn’s innovation tool set, Eric is pursuing a patent in needs-gathering methodologies. He currently holds several patents in imaging and printing architecture, subsystem technologies, and industrial design, as well as provisional patents in the health and wellness, human performance improvement, and fitness markets.
Eric is a founding member of a new business creation team in Boise, Idaho, that engages in ideation and proof-of-concept activities along with the evaluation of business plans ultimately presented to venture capitalists. He is an adviser in a new business start-up that is focused on the discovery and application of weight loss and fitness principles to lifestyle improvement. He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in business administration.
Spare Time: I formulate strategies to grow markets – literally. I love this stuff. I also study neuroscience and behavioral economics – topics that fascinate me.
Health Regimen: I’m a ‘CrossFitter,’ which is a core strength and conditioning program that constantly varies high intensity functional movements. I never thought a tall guy like me would be incorporating Olympic lifts, gymnastics and metabolic conditioning as part of my workout regimen. But after doing it for a while, I’m hooked.
Most Significant Accomplishment: Besides my wife, my two daughters and finding the meaning of life?
Favorite Reads: Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath, How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, and Service Innovation: How to Go From Customer Needs to Breakthrough Services by Lance Bettencourt.
Inspiration: I am fascinated by ideas. One of my strengths, I believe, is the ability to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
