Eric J. Humphrey

About Me

I’m a technologist, researcher, and leader who thrives on driving big, ambitious ideas to reality. If you need a tech visionary to craft AI strategy, a change agent to realign and energize teams, or a founding engineer to build a product’s first iteration, I’m your person. I’ve done it all—product, design, and end-to-end engineering—across music, education, and health.

Now, I’m driven by the same mission-minded energy to explore climate tech, particularly direct air capture (DAC). I’m unfazed by skeptics because I’ve seen seemingly impossible frontiers (like deep learning) transform entire industries. I believe CO₂ feedstocks offer huge potential as fuel and storage solutions, and I’m more than happy to share my thinking with anyone who will listen (including my young children).

My path began in music—building amps and guitar pedals in undergrad led me to what was by all measures my dream job at Spotify, where I helped shape next-generation AI-driven listening experiences. Wanting to do more good, I moved into ed-tech and then health tech, focusing on tangible, positive impact. However, as time has gone on, I increasingly see climate as the single-most important field for humanity. Sometime as a much older man, I aspire to look back at my life and career and know that I made a material contribution to the health and sustainability of the planet.

I’m an avid runner—my favorite way to explore a new place is at a steady pace—and a curious language learner (French, Norsk, Spanish), forever fascinated by how words carry human history, and an occasional homebrewer (ahem beer scientist). I’m also a one-person rock band (guitar, drums, bass, sax, keys in a pinch) with a knack for songwriting and storytelling.