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John E Derrick

John Derrick
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Roles available for:

  • Fractional
  • Consulting
  • Contract
  • Interim

FCEO

Fractional Chief Executive Officer

FCGO

Fractional Chief Growth Officer

FCTO

Fractional Chief Technology Officer

  • Maryville, Tennessee, United States
  • http://www.jederrick.com
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Charter
John Derrick
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  • Expertise
    Business model planning and execution. Semiconductor and compute technologies - processors, storage, security, networking, etc.. Storage and cloud-based data systems - content aware storage, application and data lifecycle management Venture, PE, and M&A strategies.
  • Services

    Strategic planning, Product / Marketing definition and fine-tuning, positioning for fund-raising and strategic events. Market and business development through introductions and channels.

  • Employees overseen

    250 employees

  • Budget overseen

    $ 50,000,000

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Roles available for:

  • Fractional
  • Consulting
  • Contract
  • Interim

FCEO

Fractional Chief Executive Officer

FCGO

Fractional Chief Growth Officer

FCTO

Fractional Chief Technology Officer

  • Maryville, Tennessee, United States
  • http://www.jederrick.com
Achievements
Charter
Why hire me in a fractional role
Rock solid experience / leadership and confidence. Help drive a vision that everyone can understand and embrace. Create a strategic plan and areas of responsibility that each member of the team can own and drive. I currently advise five different companies and several venture groups. Fractional leadership provides the time and activity level to transform "advice" to action. I have advised more than a dozen companies. Vast majority were acquired, still active, and growing.
Experience

Fractional role

  • COO
  • This is a Fractional role CEO
  • This is a Fractional role CEO
  • This is a Fractional role CEO
  • This is a Fractional role Interim CEO / Independent board member / Advisor

Strengths in this role: Ability to understand and communicate the value proposition of our product offering as it relates to the targeted customers, communicate that to those customers, and close business.

Industry Group: High Tech

Industry: Semiconductors

Years of experience: 15 years

Industry Group: High Tech

Industry: Computer Software

Years of experience: 10 years

Industry Group: High Tech

Industry: Information Technology and Services

Years of experience: 5 years

Company name: MIPS Technologies

Company size: 250 employees

Role in this company: Grew global revenues & drove them from negative cash flow to GAAP profit within 12 months. I restructured the company and repositioned our products setting new high water marks for revenue and leading the company from negative cash flow to GAAP profit. The company was global and I led Product, Marketing, and I proactively assisted Sales and Legal in closing business.

Strengths in this role: Ability to define and communicate the value of a new and unique data processing model yielding order of magnitude benefits to the market. Ability to coach our team through the Intel due diligence process and close the sale of the company within a few months of negotiation and due diligence.

Industry Group: High Tech

Industry: Information Technology and Services

Years of experience: 15 years

Company name: Conformative Systems

Company size: 80 employees

Role in this company: Started, scaled, and sold a server technology company to Intel Corporation providing gains for investors. Drove marketing, sales, and product direction while leading the company, raising capital, and eventually negotiating the sale of the company to Intel Corporation. Targeted customers were primarily financial institutions and insurance companies with substantial data center compute requirements.

Strengths in this role: Deeply technical company licensing and selling semiconductor and software IP into some of the world's largest semiconductor and smartphone manufacturers. Key strength was (1) understanding the value of the product, (2) able to explain unique value proposition for the OEM customer, and (3) create a strong analyst and press following.

Industry Group: High Tech

Industry: Semiconductors

Years of experience: 15 years

Company name: Chicory Systems

Company size: 35 employees

Role in this company: Created a 10X annualized ROI for investors. Founder and leader of the company driving product, marketing, finance, and sales leadership. Created the vision for the company, raised capital, scaled, and negotiated the sale of the company. The company provided software and semiconductor IP for smartphones

Strengths in this role: Able to identify key value proposition and drive that to market to generate / close sales. We secured sales on all continents except for Antartica.

Industry Group: High Tech

Industry: Computer Software

Years of experience: 10 years

Company name: Jelastic

Company size: 50 employees

Role in this company: Recruited as 2nd CEO. Grew revenue at 350% CAGR, secured investor term sheet(s), and led through difficult geopolitical period. The company was based in Ukraine during the 2013-2014 period.

Strengths in this role: Market, Product, and Team. Ability to understand market need, determine how to address that need with technology or service offering, and led teams through that process. This involves a measurable step-by-step strategic plan that ALL team members can engage and thrive.

Industry Group: High Tech

Industry: Information Technology and Services

Years of experience: 25 years

Company name: Intel capital portfolio company, StorSpeed, Ubicom, many others..

Company size: 50 employees

Role in this company: Interim CEO driving a redefinition of a storage appliance company into an enterprise software company (acquired by NetApp). Independent board member for an Intel capital investment & automotive company where I drove patent / technology strategy and scale. Advisor to CEO and Board for Ubicom on GTM and product technology (team acquired by Qualcomm). Many, many more..

  • Board membership

    Company: Saankhya Labs, Ltd

    Position: board member

    From: 02/01/2011

    To: 01/31/2015

    Company: Skywriter Systems, Inc

    Position: board member

    From: 04/23/2018

    To: 04/01/2023

    Company: Chicory Systems, Inc

    Position: CEO & Board Member

    From: 08/24/1999

    To: 05/25/2001

    Company: Conformative Systems, Inc.

    Position: CEO & board member

    From: 05/01/2003

    To: 10/15/2005

  • Degrees & accreditations

    BSEE, Negotiation certificate (University of Chicago seminar), various others..

  • Success story

    Bitfusion.io. I was an early advisor to the company and helped them define their planned product offering, investor materials, introduced them to multiple investors (one of which invested). They were acquired by VMWare last month. AetherBio.com. I was an early advisor and invested in their seed round. Company's valuation far exceeded seed stage "cap". The company raised a highly valued series A round late last year.

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