Eric Olson is the Vice President of Business Development at BuzzFeed. At BuzzFeed he is responsible for many things but he focuses on cultivating and maintaining relationships with publishers and working on partnerships. Prior to BuzzFeed Eric worked in Business Development for FeedBurner where he was one of the three people responsible for publisher relations across the board from large media to the average blogger. In addition to that Eric is also a co-founder of the popular technology industry event TECH cocktail and he authors a blog titled Olson's Observations that covers everything from business and tech related topics to movie reviews and the occasional sports post.