John Derrick

John Derrick, Strategic Consultant, works with fellows one-on-one to a perform market fit evaluation, identify technical gaps that need to be addressed to advance the technology to market, develop a strategic commercialization plan, and more. He brings great experience from two of the nation’s best known entrepreneurial ecosystems – Austin, TX and the Bay Area of California. He’s led three company exits as the Chief Executive Officer in addition to multiple additional exits as an advisor or interim CEO. Those exits where he was CEO include Chicory Systems Inc. that was acquired by Parthus Technologies PLC, Conformative Systems Inc. that was acquired by Intel Corporation, and Qubell that was acquired by Grid Dynamics. John holds a BS is Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University.