Erin Defossé

Erin Defossé is the Vice President of Products and Strategy at edioma, Inc., a mobile software developer targeting the US Hispanic market. edioma’s offers a marketing platform that garners user profiles through a series of highly contextual English language instruction applications on the mobile phone that allows advertisers to effectively target the immigrant Hispanic demographic. Erin is in charge of product development and product management and works closely with the CEO and the Board of Directors of the company to develop and implement corporate strategy.

Prior to his role at edioma Erin spent five years as the Director of ATI Wireless, the wireless business acceleration program of the Austin Technology Incubator at The University of Texas at Austin. At ATI he was responsible for identifying promising early stage companies, admitting them into the ATI, and providing them with the necessary strategic guidance to help them achieve their growth objectives. Erin worked closely with companies across a variety of areas in information and communications technology. During his tenure at ATI, he also served as Director of the overall ATI program for over a year and was principally responsible for developing and implementing a new go-to-market strategy that has differentiated ATI from other incubators and is used to this date by ATI to deliver its services to client companies.

Earlier in his career Erin spent seven years as the co-founder and chief technology officer of Isochron Data Corporation, a provider of wireless data communication and enterprise software solutions for the management of remote devices and equipment. Before Isochron, Erin co-founded and was President of Navtrax, a developer of wireless tracking systems, and spent over five years as a spacecraft mission designer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

In the non-profit sector, Erin currently serves as the Chairman of the Austin Wireless Alliance, the wireless industry association of Central Texas. Erin is also the Founder and President of The Magellan International School, a private elementary school in Austin offering a dual language immersion curriculum guided by the International Baccalaureate Organization’s educational framework.

Erin holds an MBA and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas and an MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University