About
Eric Turkington
Thinker, tinkerer. Writer, shooter. Father, husband.
I'm a product leader, writer, and generalist who has spent the last fifteen-plus years at the intersection of emerging technology, strategy, and the question of what all of it actually does to people.
Right now I'm Chief Product Officer at Rain Stella Technologies, a health-tech company formed from the merger of RAIN (voice AI) and Stella Technology (medtech). We build clinical infrastructure — an EMR suite, a health information exchange, and a voice AI platform for the operating room — deployed across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. My work sits at the seam where AI meets high-stakes clinical reality: surgeons who need hands-free documentation, hospitals that need interoperable data, and health systems that are leapfrogging legacy IT entirely. I've been fortunate to lead products from concept through product-market fit, and to have the work recognized in Fast Company Middle East and Gulf Business.
Before RST, I spent six years at RAIN building the voice AI practice from the ground up — growing revenue from under $500K to consistent multi-million dollar years, working with Google, Amazon, Nike, and Nestlé, sitting on the Google Assistant Top Partner Advisory Board, and helping scale the company from a $17M to a $52M valuation. Before that, I was at Capgemini (via their acquisition of innovation consultancy Fahrenheit 212), where I led growth strategy and helped build an innovation community connecting C-suite leaders and PE firms. And before that, I spent nearly eight years at Ruder Finn, where I co-founded an employee engagement practice, ran digital programs for MetLife, launched Mondelez's mobile incubator, and helped organize a White House Summit for the Institute for Large Scale Innovation.
I studied philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology at Washington University in St. Louis — a combination that has turned out to be surprisingly useful for thinking about how humans interact with intelligent systems. I've been playing violin since I was five, though it's more a thread running through my life than a defining feature of it. I'm drawn to art, music, cooking, photography, and pretty much anything involving how the mind works and what technology is doing to it.
My wife and our two daughters and I have lived in New York, Seattle, and Abu Dhabi. We're currently in Amherst, Massachusetts and moving back to the greater New York area this summer. The through-line across all of these places has been a fascination with the gap between what technology promises and what it delivers — and the human texture that lives in that gap.
This site is where I put the things that don't fit in a pitch deck or a LinkedIn post. Essays on AI and meaning, photographs from wherever I happen to be, and notes on whatever I'm turning over in my head. No newsletter, no metrics — just pages, added when they're ready.
Reading
The Master and His Emissary — Iain McGilchrist
Building
Voice AI for operating rooms — Orva at RST
Listening to
Bach Cello Suites — Yo-Yo Ma
Selected press:
This AI Voice Assistant Is Helping Surgeons Save Time, Money, and Lives — Fast Company Middle East, Nov 2025
The Power of Voice in the OR: Bridging High Tech, Human Realities — Gulf Business, Aug 2025
The views here are my own. Nothing on this site should be read as speaking for my employer, colleagues, or co-conspirators.