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Management Team |
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ERIC HOPE Partner Eric “Ric” Hope joined Veritor in the spring of
2002, bringing significant experience in the growth and leadership of new
business initiatives. Most recently,
Ric was the CEO of PageCam, a Xerox Venture Labs spinout from the Xerox
Research Center in Cambridge, UK that specialized in imaging software. Over a five-year period, Ric focused on
business development and new business formation leveraging Xerox technologies
and market positions. He served as
Vice President of Market Development for the Xerox Internet Business Group
and then as VP of Operations for Xerox Technology Ventures. He has worked
with a collection of Xerox software startups (Content Guard, Mobile Doc and
MKMS, a linguistics and federated search company) and e-commerce startups (e-go and e-content BPO) to develop new
businesses and prepare for external funding.
Ric
participated on ten different acquisition evaluation teams
over a period of years, building a valuable depth of experience in the
assessment of acquisition targets and their fit in achieving the business
objectives of the enterprise. Earlier, Ric served as Vice President of
Strategy for the services group, leading the transformation efforts that grew
a US $200 million industrial copyshop organization into the $4 billion Xerox
Business Services outsourcing businesses.
A major focus was coaching of international mangers as they adapted
the US originated services business initiative to their local markets in more
than 60 countries in Europe, Latin America, Japan and Australia. During this period, international services
grew from $20 million to over $1 billion. His nearly ten years of work with
Fuji Xerox has provided unusual experience in corporate ventures and
transitions in the complex Japanese culture. Before his success with XBS, Ric was the
operational leader for Xerox channel development initiatives in the US and
was VP of Marketing for electronic office products. He had go to market and
P&L responsibility first for Diablo Systems and then in developing a
national retail and dealer network of 2500 outlets for office products,
software and printers that provided the base for the very successful Xerox
Personal Products Division, with personal copier sales more than $1 billion. Mr. Hope graduated from Cornell University with
a degree in Industrial and Labor Relations. |
