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Derek Edwards is listed as Startup Executive, Advisor, Mentor, Board Member at Self-employed, based in Seattle, Washington, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Derek Edwards.
Derek Edwards previously worked as Mentor, Advisor, Board Member, and Angel Investor at Self-Employed and Chief Executive Officer at Globys, Inc.. Derek Edwards holds Business Administration And Finance from University Of Washington.
I’m an entrepreneur through and through. Over the last 25 years, I have been a founder and CEO of three startup SaaS companies (CallVision, Globys, Amplero). I’ve guided the companies from infancy to a couple very successful exits (acquisition by VeriSign and Constellation Software). I’m a hands-on leader with a unique combination of strengths: direct enterprise sales and business finance. My board members describe me as a "creative survivor" - leading my companies through challenging times to positive exits. I now leverage my skills to provide mentorship and advisor services to other technology CEOs. Building businesses is my passion. Leading by example to create a culture of hard work, dedication to customers, creativity and learning, and a fun team approach. Every startup, including mine, runs into extinction level events that threaten its survival. I’m adept at identifying the problem and executing plans to live to fight another day. During these challenges, I didn’t always have a mentor or advisor to lean on. I share my experience and perspective with technology leaders to help survive these events. I also get to meet many amazing companies to invest in as an angel investor.Outside of work, I’ve served as a mentor for the University of Washington MBA program for 20 years, and as an advisory board member for the University of Washington Diabetes Care Institute. I enjoy active hobbies of hiking, fishing, golfing, and trying to keep up with my two amazing teenage boys.
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I provide mentoring and advisory help to startups. I’m most experienced helping with strategic direction, go-to-market, financial planning, fund raising, and acquisitions. Some of my favorite companies are EvolutionIQ, Included, Go-Time, and Fulcrum. I am also an active angel investor in 25+ innovative companies.
Greater Seattle Area
I founded Globys to provide analytics services to some of the largest telecommunications carriers in the world including T-Mobile, AT&T, Vodafone, CenturyLink, and Telstra. We built a very successful global team to provide our SaaS based solution. I completed multiple acquisitions to enhance our product portfolio and ultimately sold the business to.
Greater Seattle Area
Member of the original founding team of Amplero focusing on go-to-market and sales to initial customers. Amplero was a machine learning and marketing platform to automatically discover and execute what is best for the customer. Globys spun Amplero out into a new company with new executive leadership. After multiple funding rounds, Amplero IP was sold to.
Vice President in charge of the Self Care and Analytics Team (formerly CallVision - acquired in 2006).
I founded CallVision to provide a reporting and analytics solution to telecommunications carriers. Our solution was an early SaaS-based service that leveraged the Internet to transform how carriers interacted with their business customers. CallVision was a great learning platform for me to raise capital from VCs (JP Morgan), build a team, survive a market.
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Derek Edwards is listed as Startup Executive, Advisor, Mentor, Board Member at Self-employed.
Derek Edwards is based in Seattle, Washington, United States while working with Self-employed.
Derek Edwards has worked for Self-Employed, Globys, Inc., Amplero, Verisign, Inc, and Callvision, Inc..
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Derek Edwards holds Business Administration And Finance from University Of Washington.
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