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MEET THE TEAM
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MEET ERIK
ERIK HAWKINSON
CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF
MARKETING OFFICER
As Chief Marketing Officer of Verada, Erik is positioned to help the company successfully navigate through brand awareness and beyond. Erik is a strategic and innovative leader with 25 years of building brand reputations, marketing/communications and digital initiatives from start-up to launch; strategy to implementation & analytics to action.
Erik has earned a world-wide reputation as a mentor, change innovator, partnering with top Fortune 100 companies. He has worked and lived globally, (Switzerland and Germany) while heading up strategic marketing and digital divisions in pharma, diagnostics and other verticals. He has been on executive leadership teams being instrumental in both driving the business, architecting the future and leading people.
Erik is an author, photographer, speaker and panelist in the innovation space worldwide. He travels the country and the world and thrives on helping companies and people skip level to the goals they have set successfully.
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