Mr. Erickson is a certified public accountant and a retired partner of Ernst & Young LLP. During his 35 year career with Ernst & Young (and Arthur Young & Company, a predecessor firm), he specialized in financial accounting and auditing, insolvent company reorganizations and liquidations, and fraud investigations and litigation support for major law firms. Although most of his career was in New York, he had 15 years of international financial auditing experience in various Arthur Young offices in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Currently, he provides financial advisory services to commercial, educational, hospital and community athletic organizations and condominium boards in the New York area. He was also a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of a public company subject to SEC reporting. He received a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from Rutgers University.