Our team is on the rise. Our ongoing goal is the assembly of a collective of knowledge and capability that we bring to bear for our clients, delivered via exceptional, capable, and experienced individuals.
We also actively leverage existing experience and capital in industry relationships to partner with some of the best minds in industry analysis, business & market intelligence, and vertical-specific knowledge when needed to deliver unique solutions for our clients.
Principal
Paul Erickson is a 20+ year veteran industry and competitive analyst of the media & entertainment technology and consumer electronics sectors, covering both consumer and service provider perspectives.
Prior to founding Erickson Strategy & Insights, he was Research Director for Entertainment and CE at Parks Associates, and brings expansive experience and perspective from covering media & entertainment technology, services, and related consumer devices across Parks Associates, Omdia, IHS Markit (now S&P Global Market Intelligence), and NPD DisplaySearch (now Circana).
With more than 25 years of technology industry experience, his coverage and insight has spanned streaming video services and platforms, pay & broadcast TV, connected CE, content security, UI / UX technologies, smart home, gaming, home & professional audio, and collaboration technologies.
He has regularly spoken at, moderated, and/or attended industry events, conferences, and tradeshows across the consumer, media & entertainment, and pro AV technology landscape, such as CES, IFA, MWC, IBC, NAB, Connected TV World Summit, MIPCOM, ISE, InfoComm, and NAMM. Paul is also a two-time AVIXA Emerging Trends Fellow honoree.
He has been quoted in a variety of news outlets and industry publications, including the Financial Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, BBC, Reuters, NPR, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CBC News, BusinessWeek, Variety, Bloomberg, Wired, The Verge, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, PC World, CNET, Fierce Video, TWICE, CE Pro and Cable & Satellite International.
Paul holds a BS in International Business from Georgetown University, and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Texas at Austin.
We are always on the lookout for great teammates, along with the right strategic partners, and mutually beneficial collaborations.
If you are an experienced analyst, strategist, modeler, or similar, especially within the media & entertainment, or consumer technology industries, please reach out.
There is no monopoly on great knowledge or capability – we are always open to welcoming more, learning from more, and working with more. Interested? Let’s have a conversation.
