Derek Sawaya Email & Phone Number

United States

Greater Boston

🎥 Establishing legacies.🔥 Preserving tradition.

Greater Boston Area

Share insights, ideas, opinions and perspectives that speak to leadership, change, transformation and to becoming more effective people at the things we do- including article contribution on Forbes.com.

Greater Boston Area

Community of entrepreneurs, investors and service providers as one of the 350+ chapters worldwide. StartupGrind has over 1M members worldwide and 7000+ within the Boston community. We host networking events and fireside chats with Boston’s top founders, investors and CEOs.

Kingston, Ma

America's importer of Swiss-made Striebig vertical panel saws, Lamello specialty tools, biscuits & joiners, and the finest grinding machinery comprised of multiple brands and markets.• Responsible for reorganization facets of the marketing department.• Responsible for creating, implementing and measuring the success of comprehensive marketing, communication, and public relations programs• Build annual marketing budgets for all brands and departments. Function as the point of contact for tradeshow purchasing agreements• Responsible for editorial direction, design, production, and distribution of advertising in over 10 national publications• Responsible for creation and implementation of E-blasts for multiple brands, with open and click through rates double the industry average • Video development; sent across US to film product demonstrations and product unveilings at major industry expositions• Run the social media accounts, created an Instagram account for the company, spearheaded cross-platform growth campaigns and introduced influencer marketing strategies

Quebec, Canada / Boston, Massachusetts

• Tasked with judging and scouting at a series of mid-range production, competitive music shows where artists from various genres came from across the US to perform. I graded performance, ability, and viability- and informed the organization of particular artists that would sell well.

Greater Boston Area

A lifestyle clothing brand that has been sold in and shipped to 10+ countries. Clothed filmed, and developed robust campaigns with the biggest electronic dance music artists on earth (NGHTMRE, Skrillex, Flux Pavilion, Pegboard Nerds, etc) along with great corporate partners across the music industry and beyond (including TEDx).• Travel to 6 countries and 43 states spreading the brand and establishing sales channels.• Built relationships with major industry blogs, +100 musicians and their management throughout the US, Canada, and Europe.• Managed +25 credited interns (BU, UMass, Emerson, Cabrini, Tufts) and a +40 person, multi-state promotional team.• Developed nationwide, off/online promo that focused on follower and email list growth in the thousands; impressions in the millions.• Developed all visuals including the website, social pages, offline promotion, clothing design, etc.

Greater Boston Area

Media creation and creative marketing for dot com and brick & mortar businesses; as well as independent and labeled musicians internationally. Examples of work are:• Brand audits, marketing strategy/campaigns, product and media development - video, photo, animation, design, etc. Notable clients include Max Brenner, NGHTMRE, LimeRed Bubble Tea House, Los Amigos Taqueria.

Greater Boston Area

Illumina Live created the largest experience-driven dance parties across the US. • Sit in regularly with founder to discuss brand, consulting on imagery, direction, team building, as well as travel to conferences to represent the brand and pitch the event to venues and booking agencies.• Notable clients: University of Texas Arlington, House of Blues.• Notable partners include: Uber, LiveNation, GrubHub, Happps, LiveInside.

Amherst, Massachusetts

• Oversee marketing development and execution during all stages before, during, and after the TEDx event. Created co-branded marketing campaigns in an effort to raise awareness and drive ticket sales.

Randolph, Ma

Viral Media Solutions was one of the first social media ad agencies in the world. This was an agency business that served as the framework for what became ViralGains, an advertising technology company. We acquired over 400 clients for this business. Viral Media Solutions was named one of the top social media agencies in the world by the International Business Times.• Prepared clients with creative strategies for most the effective viral marketing campaigns to boost companies’ image and generate traffic to their website and social pages. Notable clients include: DigitalTrends.com, PepsiCo, Givenchy, Pampers, Procter & Gamble.• Design work

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Mentor and RA for the Entrepreneurship Initiative class. Selected to develop the Entrepreneurship minor.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Marketing, Entrepreneurship Minor Development

Activities and Societies: RA for the Umass Entrepreneurship Initiative, Russian Club, Boxing Club.

Corporate Communication Training Graduate

Waltham, MA Focused on strengthening interpersonal relationships, managing stress, handling fast-changing work conditions, performing.