Eric Wagner is the Sr VP of Engineering at Brivo Inc, an access control company in the Washington DC area, and a founding member of MindNest LLC, a technology incubator in Phoenix, Arizona. After beginning his career as a software engineer, he quickly rose into the ranks of management, where his style of listening to his employees, leading by example and consensus instead of decree, and finding simple ways to maximize results soon lead to positions of greater responsibility at internationally-known companies Autodesk and GoDaddy.com, culminating as the CTO of Pearson Digital Learning, a division of the world's leading academic and educational publisher. He regularly travels nationwide to appear as a keynote speaker at technology and educational events. Eric holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from Arizona State University.
