Eric Litman
American businessman
Eric Austin Litman (born August 1, 1973) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor, and former CEO of the robotics health technology company, Aescape, inc. He co-founded Proxicom, built Viaduct from a one-man shop through a merger with the Wolf Group and was the founder and CEO of Medialets, a mobile ad serving and advertising analytics company acquired by WPP plc.
He has been profiled and quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Wired, and Fast Company; was named a 2010 Game Changer by New York Enterprise Report, and in 2011 was called one of the "best operators in online advertising" by TechCrunch
Early life and education
Litman was born in Los Angeles and grew up on Saint Thomas, one of the United States Virgin Islands where he graduated from high school at 15. He attended the University of Maryland, College Park in College Park northwest of Landover, Maryland.
Career
Beginning in business
While in college, he worked in pre-sales support and engineering at NeXT, the start-up founded by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Litman went on to be a senior systems engineer for Digicon, building secure, distributed networks, and applications for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Proxicom
Litman and three other colleagues from Digicon founded Proxicom in 1991. Proxicom, one of the first-generation Internet professional services agencies, went public on NASDAQ in 1998 and was sold to the global consultancy Dimension Data after a bidding war against Compaq (prior to Compaq's merger with Hewlett-Packard).
Viaduct
After Proxicom, Litman founded Viaduct Technologies, an interactive agency and was its CEO. Viaduct was acquired by Wolf Group in 2000. After the acquisition Litman stayed as Viaduct's chief operating officer.
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