University of California, Berkeley

University of Washington

Stanford University

CTO/VP of Engineering/Advisor

Rocket Travel Inc, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) group of companies, together with its affiliate Agoda company PTE LTE, partners with global brands to bring their customers rewarding and engaging travel loyalty experiences. We build unique travel sites that build customer loyalty through customized value propositions on hotel stays, renting cars or booking flights and activities.

Rocket Travel by Agoda

Head of Engineering - Core

Coach/mentor founders, CTOs/CIOs, and technology leaders.

Mento

Founder Coach

NextGen Venture Partners

Venture Partner

• Consult at Private Equity and Venture Capital backed companies.
• Spearhead the assessment and modernization of the company's product platform, including vendors selection and management.
• Conduct technical due diligence on potential acquisitions, guiding the evaluation process and providing recommendations.
• Serve as an Interim Head of Technology.
• Advise founding CTOs at start-up companies.

Peakest Technology

Chief Technology Officer / Independent Consultant

Dealer Inspire, a Cars.com company, is an innovative disruptor, future-proofing dealerships with cutting-edge connected products that make automotive retail faster, easier, and smarter for both consumers and our local dealer partners.

I was hired to consolidate multiple teams into one best-in-class engineering organization and building toward one connected platform serving our entire product portfolio.  I led technical due diligence of an acquisition that was closed and integrated successfully, enhancing our product capabilities.

Dealer Inspire

Chief Technology Officer

Aceable is helping people drive their lives forward by giving them access to the required education, vocational and professional certification they need to move up in the world. Aceable uses a mobile-first platform that allows young people and mobile professionals to learn on the go no matter where they might be.

I led technical due diligence of two acquisitions and integration of three product portfolios, teams, culture, and platform, empowering faster development of new products on one solid platform.

Aceable

VP of Engineering

A SaaS crowd-funding start-up focusing on real estate funding and real estate investors CRM automation/management.

RealStarter

Member of Advisory Board

Travelport is a leading Travel Commerce Platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the $7 trillion global travel and tourism industry.  Our Travel Commerce Platform enables travel providers, travel agencies, corporations and developers to connect. This increases profitability and drives commercial success across the business-to-business (“B2B”) travel network.  We are also the engine behind many popular B2C travel sites and travel meta-search.

I was recruited to lead a globally distributed technology organization of 250+ and to improve the overall engineering process to increase quality and release predictability, resulted in delivering a big software release that was 2.5 years in the making within 5 months of my arrival and consistent releases quarterly thereafter.

Travelport

Chief Information Officer, Agency eCommerce

Responsible for engineering, client services, operations, and revenue advisory services. 

Scout Analytics is the leading provider of recurring revenue management solutions for subscription-based businesses. The Scout Analytics platform transforms usage data into predictive analytics on customer renewal behavior and trial conversions. Our solutions are designed to reduce customer and revenue churn, increase renewal revenue yield, optimize rate plan performance, and maximize trial conversions. With over 100 customers, Scout Analytics is proven to increase revenue 10-15%.

Scout Analytics (acquired by ServiceSource)

SVP of Engineering & Operations

Security, distributed systems, WAN, and SaaS.  We are using technology to solve challenging problems related to efficiency and security that touches everybody's life.

GridStat, Inc.

Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder

Responsible for all technology, engineering, operations, security & customer management functions. Led a major reengineering move from Professional Service centric model with one-of-a-kind solutions to scalable, configurable SaaS products supporting diverse verticals with over 1.5 billion dispatches (voice and SMSs) annually. Innovated using big data to personalize consumer interactions and hence drastically enhanced the customers' overall experience. Managed 4 Executives, 150+ staff in 2 Development Centers and 4 Data Centers.

Varolii Corporation (acquired by Nuance)

Played key role in Microsoft’s acquisition of FrontBridge Technologies, and seamlessly integrated operations to provide the best filtering product in the industry in all forms: SaaS, on-premise product and hosted end-consumer offering.

Derrick Mar