Eric Vishria (b. 1979) is co-founder and CEO of RockMelt, which he founded with Tim Howes in November, 2008 and launched in limited beta in November 2010.[1]
Vishria graduated from Stanford University at age 19 with a B.S. in Mathematical & Computational Science and a minor in Human Biology. He began his career in investment banking at Broadview International and got his first entrepreneurial experience as an early employee at Loudcloud[2] and later Opsware.[3]
When Opsware was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007 for $1.65 billion, Vishria was serving as VP of Marketing. At HP, Eric was Vice President of the Products, Software, Technology Solutions Group in HP Software.[4]
In October 2008, Vishria left Hewlett-Packard to co-found RockMelt with Tim Howes.