Eric Pulier
Eric Pulier is an American entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California.
Early life and education
Pulier was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he attended Teaneck High School, graduating in 1984. He began programming computers in the fourth grade and started a database computer company in high school. Pulier began studying at Harvard University in 1984. He majored in English and American literature, was an editor and wrote a column for The Harvard Crimson, and took classes at neighboring school MIT. He graduated magna cum laude in 1988.Career
Pulier moved to Los Angeles in 1991, where he founded People Doing Things, a company that addressed health care, education, and other issues through the use of technology. In 1994, he founded the interactive agency Digital Evolution. The company completed a merger of equals with US Interactive in 1998, and took the combined company public on NASDAQ 1999 with Pulier as Chairman. Pulier worked with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and director Stephen Spielberg to create Starbright World, a private social network for chronically ill children where they can chat, blog, post content and meet others who share similar experiences.In 1997, the Presidential Inaugural Committee selected Pulier to create and execute the Presidential Technology Exhibition in Washington D.C. called "The Bridge to the 21st Century." Following the exhibition, he was invited to advise then-Vice President Al Gore's health care and technology forum and led nationally impactful health care and technology initiatives. Pulier was also a supporter and participant with the Clinton Foundation#Clinton [Global Initiative and CGI U|Clinton Global Initiative].
Since that time, Pulier has founded and co-founded sixteen other ventures and raised over 1.5 billion dollars for his initiatives. These ventures include Vatom, Desktone, ServiceMesh, Media Platform, Akana, LoanX, Ralli, Top, CLS, and others that have risen to leadership positions in their sectors, gone public, or achieved liquidity events. He also co-authored Understanding Enterprise SOA, a book on service-oriented architecture.