Derek Stubbs offers clients the ideas and insights gained from more than 25 years studying and influencing consumer behaviors. Since the early 1990s, Derek has been on the front lines of advertising and direct marketing, leading major brands in a senior capacity with some of the biggest names on Madison Avenue like Euro RSCG, Foot Cone Belding, Ogilvy, Wunderman, and Young & Rubicam.He is in his 11th year with Gartner where he provides Fortune 1000s with guidance on a consumer category called Money & Spending, which seeks to codify the relationship consumers have with their money. Primarily, such guidance deals with spending and savings motivators, mechanisms and challenges.Toward the end of his college career Derek tried his hand at stand-up comedy and discovered he had a modest affinity for it. Fortunately for the world of consumer insight, the standup comedy bubble collapsed in 1992 and Derek began his marketing career. His passions include art, cartooning, writing, bicycling, camping, a budding-if-bruising acquaintanceship with snowboarding and a lifelong obsession with the Boston Red Sox.Originally from Rhode Island, Derek lives in Portland Oregon where, to the consternation of the hipsters within earshot, he has been teaching himself guitar.
Listed skills include Advertising, Direct Marketing, Marketing, Customer Insight, and 24 others.