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Eric Trabold

Chief Executive Officer | Nexkey, Inc.
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Eric Trabold

Chief Executive Officer | Nexkey, Inc.
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Biography

Eric Trabold was recently appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Nexkey, Inc.

Nexkey is changing how people experience access to physical spaces through its platform of hardware products, apps and cloud services.

In a Career journey that began with the transition from Computer Engineer to award winning young Sales Professional, Eric’s progressive, analytical mindset and passionate pursuit of excellence predicted his emergence in Management and Executive roles over the recent decade as a uniquely gifted international leader, mentor and growth agent in highly-competitive technology sectors.

His broad influence has spanned numerous speaking engagements at industry forums such as Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley as well as CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. He is Co-chair of the German American Business Association and Co-Organizer of the renowned Society3 Mentoring-Networking group, which has over 3,000 members, that helps young entrepreneurs optimize funding opportunities, fine tune business plans and foster connections.

Eric came to Nexkey after heading Sales, Marketing & Business Development at Avegant, the leader in Light Field Display Technology for Mixed Reality. Prior tot that he was heading the North American Operation of Avira in San Francisco where he was VP Sales & Business Development for the acclaimed Security Software provider. Before that he was Director of Sales EMEA & Americas for Nero – the worldwide standard in CD/DVD Burning and Multimedia Software.