Erik Sorenson

Erik Sorenson is president and chief executive officer of Vault.com, Inc. Erik Sorenson, 52, oversees the strategic direction of the international, New York-based career information company. He is widely regarded as an expert on media strategy and industry trends, with experience spanning radio, local and network broadcast television, cable and syndicated TV, and the Internet.

In October 2007, Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a leading private equity investor in the media, communications, information and education industries, acquired a majority stake in Vault.com. At that time, Erik Sorenson was named CEO and charged with growing the business into a global, cross-platform leader within the highly competitive career space. Erik Sorenson’s experience managing hundreds of careers, combined with his strong interest in emerging information distribution technologies, fueled his decision to join the company.

Erik Sorenson has won more than twenty Emmy awards as a writer, producer, and television executive, and has produced programs hosted by Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric, Chris Matthews, Brian Williams, Phil Donahue, and Keith Olbermann.

Prior to joining Vault.com, Erik Sorenson was owner and president of Triple Threat Television, where he produced numerous shows for cable television. From 1998 through 2004, Erik Sorenson served as president of the MSNBC cable news channel, where he managed more than 100 hours of live programming weekly and developed broadband delivery and satellite radio as additional revenue streams for the network. While with MSNBC, he received Emmy awards for the network’s coverage of the 2000 presidential election and the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

In 1996, Erik Sorenson joined Court TV as executive vice president, where he supervised all live courtroom coverage and documentary programming. Prior to that, Erik Sorenson was executive producer at Group W Productions, launching a syndicated television magazine startup.

From 1991 through 1994, Erik Sorenson held the position of executive producer for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. During this time he won an Emmy award for the program’s coverage of the first Gulf War. From 1989 through 1991, he served as executive producer of CBS This Morning. Prior to that, Erik Sorenson served as vice president and general manager at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, where he received a George Foster Peabody award for an investigative news feature on corporate connections to organized crime. Previously at the station, he served as the youngest-ever (at that time) major affiliate news director (at the age of 28).

Erik Sorenson began his career in media as a teenage news reporter and sports play-by-play announcer at WKRS radio in Waukegan, Illinois. He attended DePauw University, where he was news director of the campus radio station, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin. His first post-graduate position was at KFMB in San Diego, where he worked his way up to executive producer.

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