Primary Job Title Co-founder and CTO Primary Organization CloseFactor
Location San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage
Website erikbuchanan.com/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Erik is an engineering leader and angel investor. He runs the machine learning organization for LinkedIn Talent Solutions, building LinkedIn's leading product Recruiter. Erik was part of the founding team at Connectifier, running all of engineering for the company. LinkedIn acquired Connectifier in 2016, and Microsoft acquired LinkedIn the
same year. The Connectifier founding team previously worked together on Google Analytics. Before that, Erik was a security researcher at Websense (now Forcepoint) and UC San Diego, and also worked at Microsoft Research and NASA.
