Derek Rider Email & Phone Number

Derek Rider is the Global CEO and the first Founder to join Media One Group Holdings Inc. (Media One Group), a global agency owned by founders of existing successful agencies and production companies. As independent agency owners working for the world’s largest brands, we often have clients who need global reach outside of where we have built our core business. Media One Group solves this problem by providing CMOs with one company to serve them with 10 offices around the world, boots on the ground on every continent and thousands of trusted Creators in the network. Global agency scale with Independent boutique agency service. A global holding company still owned by the founders who care deeply about their client relationships. A business still run by those who started their initial businesses. Not by Wall Street. Together, Media One Group has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, New York City, London, Paris, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore.Are you a founder of a successful agency that is your geographical region’s leader? Want to join our mission to make Content Worth Creating on the global stage? Email Derek at derek@mediaonecreative.ca.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Derek is the Founder and CEO of Media One Creative Inc. He is also the Founder and CEO of Media One Group. www.mediaonegroup.comWe are one of The Americas' Fastest Growing Companies. Under Derek's leadership, Media One Creative Inc. is a global content agency providing creative, digital video strategy and production services to clients in North America, Europe and Asia. With a rapidly growing client base, our vision remains clear, we create: "Content Worth Creating" Derek has grown the agency via Media One Group, as a holding company, to include specialist agencies in Canada, USA, Europe and Asia.The Media One Group consists of thousands of Creators worldwide. We have full-service creative agencies and production companies with offices in LA, San Francisco, Toronto, NYC, London, Paris, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore to serve our Fortune 500 clients. In addition to a team of boots-on-the-ground in over 72 countries, we own and operate production/post-production facilities and movie studios in Canada, the USA and in Vietnam, allowing for true vertical integration of the creative and production process.From Strategy > Creative > Pre-Production > Production > Post-Production > Advertising/Distribution all in-house.At Media One Creative and Media One Group, Derek is involved with:• Mergers and Acquisitions• Strategy, Culture, Leadership • Global PartnershipsDerek can be reached direct at derek@mediaonecreative.ca

Derek is the President and founder of Rider Enterprises Inc., Rider Holdings Inc. and Rider Global Ventures Inc. In this role, Derek oversees the firm’s investment portfolio. We invest in various companies, technology startups and commercial real estate ventures. We are particularly interested in movie studios / sound stages in the USA and the film/entertainment industry.

In the time of the COVID crisis, we needed hope. Stories of Humanity was a non-profit initiative, led by Derek and joined by multiple production companies and associations during the pandemic. We created films and interviews of people, brands and businesses doing the right thing in that difficult time. We secured distribution of the stories to 100M+ audience channels and the project culminated with an episode about the film and television community banding together, featuring Toronto Mayor John Tory.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Leveraging Derek’s degree in Broadcast Journalism, he worked in progressive roles at BNN (now BNN Bloomberg) as a Broadcast Associate and then Chase Producer. Derek was the only employee posted at the Toronto Stock Exchange, supporting all guest interviews with the Canadian corporate elite. He also oversaw 1 hour of national TV programming per week, where he learned how to leverage the talents of freelancers coast to coast and deliver production at TV quality and at scale.

Derek was a partner and sales/ marketing leader in Durable Concrete Products, a company specializing in water-resistant concrete admixtures (acquired 2010)

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Derek worked as a Customer Service Representative and was promoted to being a Financial Service Representative at TD, while studying at Ryerson University (now TMU). This was Derek’s first real customer service and sales job. Derek consistently led his branch office in sales revenue in mortgage originations and core banking product sales.

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