Jim Erickson

Senior Editor, Business & Technology
TIME

Jim Erickson joined TIME in January 2002 as the magazine’s Senior Editor, Business & Technology in Asia. Erickson has for more than 20 years covered business and technology at newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and Asia. In his most recent post, he was assistant managing editor at Asiaweek, where he participated in the publication's successful redesign and relaunch. As Asiaweek's technology editor, he also created and ran the magazine's quarterly technology supplement, TechSavvy, as well as a prior incarnation of the consumer technology guide, the monthly Asiaweek.com.

Before moving to Hong Kong in 1997, he was an award-winning business reporter for the morning newspaper in Seattle, Washington, where he covered major corporations including Boeing and Microsoft. In 1992, he co-authored "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire," the first biography of Microsoft's famous chairman. The book became a New York Times best-seller.

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