Erik Guffrey
Co-Chief, Product & Technology Officer

About Erik
Erik joined Simulations Plus as part of its acquisition of Pro-ficiency in June of 2024. With a passion for design and building scalable solutions that delight, Erik brings 20+ years as an engineer and digital product developer. He has nearly a decade in executive leadership positions and possesses a depth of skills ranging from strategic product positioning to tactical feature development and everything in between.

Erik spent the early part of his career working in the financial industry for commercial real estate private equity, a hedge fund, and two fin-tech startups. Most recently he led digital product and creative capital studio, Fugitive Labs, who built three products for the clinical trials industry — Trial Portals, a protocol documentation management platform; Study Recruiter, a matching algorithm between investigators and trials; and Study Ledger, an investigator payment tracking platform. With Pro-ficiency’s acquisition of these products, Erik joined Pro-ficiency to lead product development efforts.

Erik lives in beautiful Bend, OR with his wife, Robin, their three kids, and a lazy dog named Boz. The family loves to ski, mountain bike, paddle board, and play in the woods.