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Derek started his career in the software business. He has managed many successful programs and sales teams throughout his career which started at Epicor, Aerotek and most recently Trelevate. 

After playing collegiate golf at the University of Northern Iowa, he undertook a successful professional golf career; playing on tours and tournaments across the country. His success in golfing, led him to caddy on the PGA Tour for  world class players. From that experience he moved into a Director of Business Development  role at Trelevate in which he enabled 150+ sales people across the country on a daily basis, with strategy, activation and key implementation of programs.

His strengths are in communicating with people and starting programs from the ground floor. As a strong entrepreneur at heart, and with a strong communications and marketing background, we lean on him for strategies, player development and partner management.

He is also married to his high school sweetheart Jamee (it's a Range thing)  and they have 2 kids, Brooks (8) and Ella (5), and a four legged pup named Ace.They reside in Fountain Hills, AZ.