Eric Hicks is the Senior Director of Information Technology at Sanford Burnham Prebys, and serves as the overall head of the information technology at the institute.
Eric has been involved with technology in areas of increasing responsibility for more than 25 years in the non-profit medical research sector, the biotechnology sector—including drug manufacturing at IDEC Pharmaceuticals and Biogen—as well as large-scale Internet space organizations at Akamai Technologies, managing thousands of servers worldwide.
He oversees the institute’s scientific computing technology, business systems, desktop and mobile support, the library and other ancillary systems/technologies.
Eric attended the University of California, Berkeley, and attained his undergraduate degree at UC San Diego.