Erik Goldman

Erik Goldman is the founder and CEO of Sfara, a Hoboken, New Jersey company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a safety and collision-detection platform using on-device AI and sensor data. A connected-vehicle pioneer, he co-founded Hughes Telematics in 2006, grew it to more than 1,000 employees and roughly $250M in revenue, and saw it acquired by Verizon in 2012, where he served as Group President of Verizon Telematics. At Sfara he is building AI that detects crashes at all speeds, suppresses false positives, and speeds emergency response and insurance claims for automakers, insurers, fleets and wireless carriers.