Derek Pilch Email & Phone Number

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Oakland, California, United States

Cannabis Derived Products. Cannabis Extraction.

Redwood City, California, United States

Social Concepts develops, builds and operates businesses in the social media, mobile and gaming sectors. We have developed a variety of profitable social sites, mobile games and applications including Self Aware Games (now Big Fish Casino), fubar.com (first online only social bar), iRave (photo sharing site), Card Ace Casino (mobile casino games), Fleck (social network/game), TaxiBall (mobile game), and zoorag (celebrity gossip site), among others. We designed and built Self Aware Games, a top ranked online casino, to $15 mln revenue run rate and profitability withing 12 months, and sold it to Big Fish Games in 2012 for $80 million. Big Fish Games was acquired by Churchill Downs in November 2014 for nearly $900 million.

Redwood City, California, United States

Leo Group LLC is an investment fund participating in early funding rounds in early stage companies. Notable investments include Tesla (IPO), Twitter (IPO), PillPack (sold to AMZN), Hootsuite, Snaplogic, Peel (sold), A Thinking Ape (sold), True Facet, spOn, Arcus Financial (sold to Mastercard Inc.), Cloud9 eSports, Passion Flix, Picnic (fka Otto Robotics) and Square Two. We also made opportunistic investments in crypto funds (Polychain Capital, Binary Crypto Fund), residential real estate (multi unit complexes in Phoenix and Austin) and hospitality (Innovative Dining Group, Boa Steakhouse)

San Jose, California, United States

As an interim CEO, set up a new company, dotData, Inc. Executed a spin out of assets from NEC, Inc. Spun out assets, including hardware, intellectual property, several initial employees, and transferred existing contracts. Set up a new independent company in Silicon Valley to an operating level. Raised a $20MM convertible note from NEC. Hired initial engineers and executives. Signed first revenue deals.

Online advertising and online lead generation.Grew from 5 people to 100 employees and revenue from $0 to $100mln annual run rate. Reached profitability within first six months. Raised $20mln Series A from Oak Investment Partners. Merged Netblue with Traffic Market Place to create Connexus Corporation.

Director of Sales with sales staff of 10 and revenue responsibility of $12mln. Served as GM of the business unit and managed the marketing, technology and operations of the business unit with total staff of 30.

Web based communities, web based collaboration start-up.Raised $6mln Series A from Benchmark and $10mln Series B from late stage investors. Raised $30mln of debt from Comdisco and from Silicon Valley Bank.Remarq was sold to Critical Path, Inc. for $265mln.

Warsaw, Poland

Eastern Europe based investment bank and advisory firm. Sourced and completed several deals including advisory M&A and private equity funding for private Polish enterprises.

New York And San Francisco

Mba

Bs, Business, Economics

Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

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