Derek Blum Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Portland, Oregon Area

Lead Product Management function to define product offering and roadmap.

SpatialKey delivers fast, agile and comprehensive analytics solutions, with powerful geo-spatial capability, providing decision support in the critical areas of underwriting, claims and exposure management.I defined product positioning within the market, worked closely with clients and prospects to set product priorities and manage the product roadmap, and.

Portland, Oregon Area

In addition to Sr. Director responsibilities, actively worked to expand market opportunities and key relationships as part of overall corporate strategy. Explored new market verticals by conducting market research. Prioritized our product and deployment strategy to include a SaaS offering to appeal to a broader base of customers. Work closely with key.

Portland, Oregon Area

Owner of the product roadmap for company's core product, Savanna. Oversee Product Management, Design, Technical Publications, Marketing and Account Management teams. Part of company leadership team with active involvement in setting corporate strategy. Empowered team to explore process improvements, improve scrum implementation, and improve team velocity.

Led the Product Management team for RMS' LifeRisks team focused on delivering mortality and longevity risk solutions for the life and health insurance market. Oversaw the full product lifecycle including design and delivery of a new, cloud-based application utilizing agile development processes. Heavily involved in all aspects of our solution including.

Newark, CA

Led the Emerging Risk Models group which focused on delivering software and consulting solutions for the management of risk from emerging perils such as terrorism and pandemic influenza as well as new business segments. Oversaw software development, model development, product management and marketing, and client services.

Managed the marketing efforts for this Internet start-up positioned to deliver online business credit automation solutions. Selected and tracked performance of traditional and electronic marketing campaigns. Reduced marketing spend by analyzing channel effectiveness. Additional responsibilities included market research, channel marketing, managing sales.

Provided consulting services to the insurance industry to facilitate catastrophe risk management. Helped establish catastrophe risk modeling as a standard insurance industry practice and position RMS as the clear market leader. Senior member of RMS’ Risk & Technology Consulting (RTC) Group (20+ employees) responsible for hiring, group development, product.

Managed financial risk assessment projects which helped businesses quantify and manage the financial risk associated with natural catastrophes. Projects ranged in size ($1k - $500k) and duration (1 day - 12 months). Provided strong leadership through effective management of analytical projects: organized teams based on project scope and effort, created.

Promoted quickly and assumed greater levels of responsibility in performing catastrophe risk analysis projects. Served as primary project team member responsible for project execution and completion including client communications and presentations.

Analyst in the fledgling catastrophe risk modeling and assessment industry. Produced analytical reports incorporating RMS’ technology, client consultation, database manipulation, and financial analysis across a wide range of projects.

Ba, Economics

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