Eric Richard

Vice President of Engineering, Compete.com

Eric Richard is Vice President of Engineering at Compete.com. Previously, Eric was with Idiom Technologies, a globalization management company, where he oversaw technology integration and product research and development. Prior to serving as Vice President of Engineering at Idiom Technologies, Eric was CTO and VP of Engineering of Cambridge-based NetGenesis (now part of SPSS), the web analytics company he co-founded in 1994. The success of NetGenesis, considered by many to be the pioneer of today’s web analytics, earned Eric recognition in 2001 as a finalist in the Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

In addition to his entrepreneurial accomplishments, Eric is a recognized leader in the Internet development industry. He is one of the principal authors of “How to Build a Web site,” the first technical resource guide for Web site developers, and he created and built the award-winning “Sports Information Service,” the first sports resource site on the Web. Prior to NetGenesis, Eric worked at IBM’s Almaden Research Center, where he developed handwriting recognition software.