About · Eric Turkington

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). I lead product across three platforms and the AI layer that runs through them: Equinox, a cloud EMR; Constellation, a health information exchange built to run at hospital, regional, or national scale; Orva, a voice AI platform for the operating room; and an AI Agent Factory where we compose governed, multi-agent clinical workflows across all three. The work is deployed across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. It sits at the seam where AI meets high-stakes clinical reality: clinicians who need the whole patient story in front of them, 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, Abu Dhabi, and Amherst, Massachusetts. We now live in Easton, Connecticut. 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.

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