Eric Porres is a founding partner of Underscore Marketing, a fully independent, full-service digital media agency. Current clients of Underscore Marketing include Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, The Mathworks, Pitney Bowes, eeBee, a series of partner agencies and their brands, and have included numerous consumer brands since Underscore´s inception in 2002 (Schering Plough, Virgin Atlantic Airways, CareerBuilder.com, Perdue, Bombardier Flexjet, etc). Eric is also one of the founding partners of Pericles Consulting, an online political marketing firm with offices in New York and San Francisco. In 2004, Pericles had the opportunity to develop and execute online media plans for Presidential and Senatorial campaigns across the country and continues to work with various political organizations.

Prior to Underscore and Pericles, Eric held management positions at AOL Time Warner and Agency.com, and has worked with The Walt Disney Company and LiveTechnology. Eric also coordinated and facilitated development efforts with international partners for multinational events. As a partner with Outrageous Media, he and his partners produced two of the largest Internet webcasts in history, Michael Jackson´s "What More Can I Give" concert in Munich, Germany in 1999 and Paul McCartney´s "Run Devil Run" concert in Liverpool, England in 2000. These were prepared, priced, pitched and produced with significant online and offline marketing initiatives, webcasts, and post-production activities. As a result, in 2000, he won both a W@MMY (awarded by the National Academy of Recording Artists & Sciences) and a Yahoo! Internet Life award for the McCartney concert.

A graduate of Duke University with degrees in philosophy and markets & management studies, Eric has spent time at MIT/Sloan School of Management to hone his marketing and management skills. He has also been a guest lecturer at Long Island University and is currently on the board of 212, New York´s interactive advertising club. Eric is a member of the Bujinkan and currently graded to 5th dan in the art of ninjutsu, teaches, and is the webmaster for bbdojo.com. He is also a classically trained concert pianist under the study of Dwight Peltzer. He lives with his wife and 2 cute daughters in New York. Eric´s personal Web site is porres.com and he drinks with friends and blogs about it on NYGrapes.com.