John E. Derrick

The Elastic AI Infrastructure for Multi-Cloud - Bitfusion delivers the industry’s first AI Infrastructure disaggregation platform for GPUs and FPGAs.

Giving back by helping emergent companies plan and make the jump from research to revenue. I've helped companies from many universities and now have an opportunity to assist more companies with Yale roots.

* Advisor: Multiple AI/ML companies including.. * Bitfusion.io * An AI/ML compute platform enabling scale up and efficiency of high compute companies. Strategy, marketing positioning, and fund raising. * Drug precursor production optimization * market strategy, fund raising, and areas. * Novasentis * continued activity as an advisor to a Haptics material company.

HOPZERO is an Enterprise-focused internet security company, based in Austin, Texas, founded by technical and business leaders with decades of relevant experience. HopZero has identified and productized an elegant, simple, and direct solution to a complex problem. They leverage a built-in function of networking and to the It can easily be added to your existing IT infrastructure and not only immediately detect unauthorized data outflow, but will actually prevent a single packet from leaving the premises.. It’s about time.

Appery.io is a Cloud-based Mobile Application Development / Delivery / Management platform for Enterprise and Business. It enables businesses and developers rapidly create, deploy, and manage mobile enterprise applications across IOS, Android, and Windows Mobile with security and integration with enterprise data systems and applications.

* Leading the relaunch of a company and their cloud-based solution(s) for mass market. * Addition of applet(s) and integration across platforms * New website and market positioning * Full PR / Analyst re-introduction

Rapidly created a Strategy and Operational plan that transformed the company from an early stage company with early product to a rapidly growing company with clear market differentiation. The company's product brought PaaS and IaaS together to form Platform-as-Infrastructure. Grew revenue at greater than 300% CAGR by establishing and growing public cloud and telco customers on an extremely limited budget and difficult geopolitical climate. (Company is backed by Russia venture firms and base of technology operations are based in Ukraine) Jelastic has developed a very powerful and cost effective software infrastructure product that delivers public, private, or hybrid cloud solutions. It can install on bare metal for maximum cost effectiveness or on top of other IaaS solutions including VM-Ware, Amazon EC2, Azure, or AppEngine. Jelastic's solution does not require application adaptation and supports Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, SQL, non-SQL, RedHat Cartridge, and Docker format for additional runtimes. Check out http://www.Jelastic.com

Initially recruited by the board to determine proper market message / positioning in November. Transitioned to full CEO role to create funding or M&A options for the company in January. Emphasis on rapid customer growth and GTM delivered rapid revenue growth / close of contracts prior to acquisition. Several venture options and M&A options brought to the company through this process. Developed new strategic positioning as Autonomic Application Deployment and Management Created and drove conversations with potential acquirers – Amazon, CapGemini, Rackspace, VMWare, Pivotal, HP, Wipro, and others. Drove process to Private company acquisition.

Aether repurposes enzymes - a technology that’s been around since the beginning of life - in order to create entirely new compounds, and reinvent the production of previously discovered compounds. Using our custom machine learning solutions, combined with high-throughout robotic laboratories, we search the space of potential enzymes orders of magnitude faster than was previously possible. Aether delivers the chemicals and materials you need, built with biology.

Provided guidance and oversight as an independent board member to a SDR-based silicon and software company.

Developed, evaluated, and refined various business plans, teams, and technologies of venture companies for Austin Ventures. Developed and evaluated organizational models for established companies and teams. The focus of the business plan and technology effort was in the mixed-signal and communications areas, but the due diligence efforts included many data center and enterprise equipment companies.

Skywriter is focused on providing outbound information delivery to customers and employees to enable greater personal engagement. We offer an existing platform called http://knowledge-bytes.com and will soon be offering a SMB focused platform for easy content development, delivery, and engagement tracking that is powered with proprietary AI/ML engines.

As President & GM of the Processor Business Group, transformed the organization to high growth and profitability with increased focus on software, reference designs, commercial competitiveness, and direct support of world wide sales. Closed many strategically important architectural and core licenses in new markets, higher-volume applications, and displaced competitors from customers. As COO, continued to drive rapid growth and transformation of the whole company. Business lines were evaluated and restructured to drive both top line and bottom line improvements, this included several site closures and strengthening of ties across the remaining eight sites. The overall business was able to achieve their best results in over seven years on steady revenues, increasing volumes, and increasing royalties even in the down tech market. Planned and initiated the process to spin out a services focused part of the business to complete the transformation of the business. This sale to Synopsys was completed after 1Q'09.

Micro-architected the Power-4 microprocessor core's internal instruction set along with other functional unit architects. Also led previous technical engagements and efforts for Apple and other customers for PowerPC. Developed and led the definition of an open standard interconnect bus for next-generation x86 processors along with representatives from other companies. Defined key architectural features for future x86 processors – both related to the bus standard and S/MP on chip. Led an "upstart" business within IBM Microelectronics - led definition and development for a multiprocessor-capable, fault-tolerant, high-performance server chipset (memory controller, PCI bridge, cache controller, BIOS, board).

Led a software and systems company that developed and delivered enterprise web services and data content transformation to financial, insurance, and government type markets. The company successfully demonstrated technology leadership and value prior to being acquired by Intel's Digital Enterprise Group in October 2005. As GM of the Acceleration Products Division, led the transition of Conformative Systems from independent company to part of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. Worked across different divisions of Intel to help chart post-acquisition strategy.

CEO of a startup that developed hardware-based acceleration technologies for power/performance constrained devices. Responsible for business plan development, fundraising, recruitment, and company launch. The company established an experienced management team and successfully established itself in the market with two licensee deals prior to acquisition. Led the negotiation and sale to Parthus Technologies ($45 million in cash and stock and further consideration of approximately $30 million contingent on post-merger performance). As VP/GM, led the transition of Chicory Systems from independent company to an independent business unit of Parthus Technologies.

Mr. Derrick had two internship assignments with Texas Instruments Defense Electronics Group. The first was a 10 month assigment developing digital models and modeling methodology for several projects (government programs). The second was a shorter assignment, but developed analog macro models and a thermal noise modeling methodology for medium scale analog and RF components. Activities and Societies: Member of Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Academic Honor Society) Member of Tau Beta Phi (General Engineering Academic Honor Society) Student Chapter of IEEE