This is the story about a young kid from San Fransisco California that was dragged from his home at the age of 5 to travel the world with his father. At first Erik was not super happy about the idea of leaving his friends behind to unknown territory and areas. As he asked “Dad where are we going?” “Too see the world, his father replied with a smile – something you will enjoy”
Being the son of a father whom was busy doing business all over the world and a mother highly educated and working in interior design with honors for many distinguished people all over California, Erik has seen quite a bit.
Erik is the great grandson of the founder of Jyske Bank the third largest bank in Denmark, and business has been implicit with the family ever since. As a result of his fathers job as the CEO of Tjæreborg Services Inc. at Tjæreborg Rejser Inc. Erik has likewise been to most skiing resorts in the Alps and elsewhere.
Erik is the founder of Top Notch Rating and has traveled all over the world, and experienced some of this worlds worst but also some of the most exclusive hotels, airlines, car rentals and restaurants this world has to offer. His father being busy with his work – Erik had to spend a lot of time alone in Hotels, Restaurants, he learned about all processes/operations of the different businesses behind the scenes, as the staff became almost like a reserve family occasionally.
Erik has dinned at over 50 Michelin awarded restaurants world wide from 1 to three stars. Erik has stayed at Burj Al Arab, various Kempinski Hotels and different Marriott Hotels, The Plaza Hotel in New York, The Hotel Ritz in Paris, George V likewise, and in the UK Claridges, The Royal Horseguard, The Manderin Hotel in London, and in Rome The Waldorf Astoria Cavalieri and of course D’angleterre in Copenhagen Denmark and more.
Because Erik has done this he has since this young age developed a special sense for the 4 primary industries within the Top Notch Rating framework (Hotels, Restaurants, Car Rental, Airlines)