Education
Yale University
BA, Economics and East Asian Studies 1990-01-01 - 1994-01-01Harvard-Westlake School
, 1986-01-01 - 1990-01-01Work Experience
Collective Solution
Current
Collective Solution
Hoopla
Current
Hoopla
Puzzle
Current
Puzzle
Champions Network
Current
Champions Network
Datassential
2001-08-01 - 2019-09-01
Datassential
T2 Venture Capital
2007-03-01 - 2010-02-01
T2 Venture Capital
Menus.com, Inc.
1998-08-01 - 2001-08-01
Menus.com, Inc.
Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank)
1994-01-01 - 1997-01-01
Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank)
Skills
Summary
Thanks for taking the time to learn a little more about me. I'm Deron – your all-in-one serial entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and connector. My “Big Why” is connecting people and creating magical moments. I’ve learned this the hard way or the long way, which is just life, maturity, and introspection. I am certainly proud of having helped to found and grow Datassential (datassential.com, leader in foodservice data analytics) and Collective Solution (now UnifyCX.com), but I am equally proud of gathering entrepreneurs and professionals around a breakfast table to have authentic, vulnerable conversations that can change a single person’s life trajectory. Professionally, I am passionate about helping companies of all sizes grow and scale and I have two companies, UnifyCX and Puzzle (puzzle.tech), that can help in customer care/back office and customized tech development respectively. Happy to share my thoughts on: * Outsourcing benefits * Implementation of Remote Teams * Scaling a business cost-effectively I also created Breakfast of Champions by the Champions Network (champions.net, so far in Los Angeles and Orange County) to provide an outlet for deeper connections between professionals with an ethos of being helpful on one another’s personal and professional growth. Talk to me if you are interested in: * Tech start-ups * Event marketing * Building communities from the ground-up