At SEEC, he worked under a highly experienced CEO and dealt with many senior level executive and business development consultants. Erickson learned all aspects of product development, marketing and sales, development processes, ramp-up and private financing, as well as legal business aspects including patents and trademarks law.

He graduated from the University of Montana – School of Forestry with a Bachelor of Science in 1986, with extensive expertise in economics (business, energy, environment and resource allocation). During Erickson’s college years, he served five seasons as a member of an elite wildfire suppression team, the El Cariso Hotshots, stationed in Orange County, California, carrying out some of the most dangerous physically and mentally demanding pyrotechnic fire suppression operations throughout the mountains of Southern California and the Mountain West.

From 1987 to 1990, he was a private contractor of premium energy efficient commercial real estate in Sun Valley (Ketchum), Idaho.

Erickson is married and the father of an 18-month-old son. He is an active member of The First Presbyterian Church of Hudson, WI and served on the church’s Finance Committee. He belongs to the Hudson, WI chapter of Rotary International, and in his spare time, is an avid naturalist, woodcutter, hunter, gardener, and downhill skier.