Eric Rhoads is a career entrepreneur, with 30 years of launching companies and media brands, creating startups, and building businesses, including over 40 years’ experience in the radio broadcasting field, 25 years in the publishing business, and a decade in the art industry. Rhoads serves as chairman of the board of Streamline Publishing, Inc., a company he founded in 1986. He also serves as a consultant and adviser to companies in media, technology, digital media, and art.

Rhoads has hands-on experience in all functions of business turnarounds as a serial entrepreneur, building companies in radio broadcasting; radio syndication and programming; promotional products; publishing of magazines, books, videos, and websites; media brands and conferences; and launching of consumer products.

Rhoads was a pioneer in the online radio space, with RadioCentral Networks, Inc., where he led the $18 million venture-funded startup. He was the founder of Equivox Broadcasting, Inc., which acquired radio stations in New Orleans, Salt Lake City, and Provo, Utah. He also founded New World Communications, a radio programming firm, and was a founding investor in SuperRadio Networks, Inc.

In 1986 Rhoads launched Streamline Publishing, Inc., which acquired a floundering trade publication that was renamed Radio Ink and is now a market leader serving the radio industry. Rhoads’ board positions have included the Bayliss Broadcast Foundation, WAY-FM Media Group, and the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Rhoads resides in Austin, Texas with his wife and triplet children.