Erik Sorenson is president and chief executive officer of Vault.com, the Web’s most comprehensive resource for career management and job search information. Erik oversees the strategy and operations of the international, New York-based career information company.

In October 2007, Erik was named CEO of Vault and charged with growing the business into a global, cross-platform leader within the highly competitive career space.

Just prior to Erik’s appointment, Veronis Suhler Stevenson — a leading private equity investor in the media, communications, information and education industries — acquired a majority stake in Vault.com. Erik is a media industry veteran, with experience spanning radio, local and network broadcast television, cable and syndicated TV and digital media. He has won more than twenty Emmy awards 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 was owner and president of Triple Threat Television, where he produced programming for cable television. From 1998 through 2004, Erik served as president of cable news network MSNBC. From 1996 through 1998, Erik was executive vice president of Court TV (now TruTV), where he supervised all live courtroom coverage and documentary programming. Erik was executive producer at Group W Productions beginning in 1994.

From 1989 through 1994, Erik was a CBS network news executive, including for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS This Morning. Erik began his career at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, where, at the age of 28, he served as the youngest-ever (at that time) major affiliate news director. He then rose through the ranks to vice president and general manager.

Erik earned his B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin. He is the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Children’s Aid and Family Services of New Jersey and serves on the President’s Council of the Valley Hospital Healthcare System. He is an active member of the Ridgewood Lacrosse Association, a parent-run group that aims to involve Ridgewood schoolchildren, who have no access to athletics at their local public schools, in organized sports.

Best career advice ever received: Be right to people on the way up the ladder because you are going to meet them on the way down.

Favorite career advice to give: If you go above and beyond with your job, you will get above and beyond with your career.