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John E. Derrick

This candidate has extensive experience leading both private and public technology companies as CEO and COO. He has a proven track record of identifying a company's core value, developing strategies to deliver that value, and aligning teams to achieve growth and profitability. As the CEO of multiple companies, he has restructured pricing models, developed partnerships, accelerated revenue growth, and facilitated acquisitions. He also has experience advising venture capital firms and serving on the boards of startups. The candidate holds a engineering degree and has spent years studying business, negotiation, software engineering, and executive education programs.

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John E. Derrick This candidate is a proven catalyst for success. Key strengths are his ability to identify and communicate the core value of a companies’ offering, create a strategy and operational plan to deliver that value, and lastly, align and lead the existing team(s) to excel in the delivery of that value. He has demonstrated this as COO of a public company, as CEO and interim CEO at multiple private companies, and as a trusted advisor / board member. All of these efforts have been broadly cooperative efforts and required buy-in and consensus to achieve across employees, customers, analysts and investors. Uniquely qualified to coach and support leadership with multiple successful exits as a private company CEO, John has the small group / personality skills, technology depth & breadth, and market insight to coach and guide teams through rapid growth, change, and integration. John enjoys and is extremely motivated to help companies (people, individuals) succeed by providing guidance, connections, and coaching to private and public company executives. This executive was a key product leader at IBM in three different business groups prior to his first experience as CEO. Upon leaving IBM, he started, grew, and profitably exited two startups in his thirties. The first delivered Java, security, and file acceleration technologies into mobile devices and was acquired by a European company. The second delivered high- speed, low-latency web services processing solutions for financial, insurance, and government type uses and was acquired by Intel. As a public company COO for a software-like licensing and services public company, he rapidly drove revenue growth and profitability (negative to GAAP profit) within four quarters. The company’s ending revenue was approximately $110M, budget responsibility was over $50M, and had 300 staff across US, Europe, and China. Brought in by investors as: CEO of a mobile application platform / SaaS company, he has restructured the pricing model and strategy, developed key OEM licensing opportunities, and grown the business. CEO of a public and private cloud infrastructure software company, he repositioned the company and grew revenue 350% CAGR closing business across six continents and pushing the company’s product into telco, financial, MSP, and larger accounts. He also brought a solid term sheet for series B from a Bay Area-based venture fund. CEO of a SaaS application management platform, he rapidly accelerated revenue growth, brought two investors to term sheets, and led them to rapid acquisition. CEO of a hybrid mobile application framework, clarified the market opportunity, generated new channel and direct sales, and drives toward the companies exit. Between full-time leadership roles, he has also served as an interim CEO, board member, and advisor for a number of venture firms and hedge funds. These transformational engagements have generated considerable outcomes with five additional exits and a number of funding events. Areas of technology have included mobile application frameworks, software-based storage acceleration, networking, systems infrastructure, an autonomic cloud-based management platform, and big data/unstructured search.
He is married, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has a daughter and son in university. He earned his BS EE degree with emphasis in mathematics at Iowa State University, followed by extensive studies in business, negotiation, software engineering/algorithms at various schools and executive education programs from Berkeley, Booth School of Business, and others. He serves/has served on a number of boards of early stage companies. In his spare time, he enjoys non-business travel, exploring cooking with other food and wine, skiing, the outdoors, and mentoring entrepreneurs.

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  • 1. John E. Derrick This candidate is a proven catalyst for success. Key strengths are his ability to identify and communicate the core value of a companies’ offering, create a strategy and operational plan to deliver that value, and lastly, align and lead the existing team(s) to excel in the delivery of that value. He has demonstrated this as COO of a public company, as CEO and interim CEO at multiple private companies, and as a trusted advisor / board member. All of these efforts have been broadly cooperative efforts and required buy-in and consensus to achieve across employees, customers, analysts and investors. Uniquely qualified to coach and support leadership with multiple successful exits as a private company CEO, John has the small group / personality skills, technology depth & breadth, and market insight to coach and guide teams through rapid growth, change, and integration. John enjoys and is extremely motivated to help companies (people, individuals) succeed by providing guidance, connections, and coaching to private and public company executives. This executive was a key product leader at IBM in three different business groups prior to his first experience as CEO. Upon leaving IBM, he started, grew, and profitably exited two startups in his thirties. The first delivered Java, security, and file acceleration technologies into mobile devices and was acquired by a European company. The second delivered high- speed, low-latency web services processing solutions for financial, insurance, and government type uses and was acquired by Intel. As a public company COO for a software-like licensing and services public company, he rapidly drove revenue growth and profitability (negative to GAAP profit) within four quarters. The company’s ending revenue was approximately $110M, budget responsibility was over $50M, and had 300 staff across US, Europe, and China. Brought in by investors as: CEO of a mobile application platform / SaaS company, he has restructured the pricing model and strategy, developed key OEM licensing opportunities, and grown the business. CEO of a public and private cloud infrastructure software company, he repositioned the company and grew revenue 350% CAGR closing business across six continents and pushing the company’s product into telco, financial, MSP, and larger accounts. He also brought a solid term sheet for series B from a Bay Area-based venture fund. CEO of a SaaS application management platform, he rapidly accelerated revenue growth, brought two investors to term sheets, and led them to rapid acquisition. CEO of a hybrid mobile application framework, clarified the market opportunity, generated new channel and direct sales, and drives toward the companies exit. Between full-time leadership roles, he has also served as an interim CEO, board member, and advisor for a number of venture firms and hedge funds. These transformational engagements have generated considerable outcomes with five additional exits and a number of funding events. Areas of technology have included mobile application frameworks, software-based storage acceleration, networking, systems infrastructure, an autonomic cloud-based management platform, and big data/unstructured search.
  • 2. He is married, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has a daughter and son in university. He earned his BS EE degree with emphasis in mathematics at Iowa State University, followed by extensive studies in business, negotiation, software engineering/algorithms at various schools and executive education programs from Berkeley, Booth School of Business, and others. He serves/has served on a number of boards of early stage companies. In his spare time, he enjoys non-business travel, exploring cooking with other food and wine, skiing, the outdoors, and mentoring entrepreneurs.