Deryck Jones

Why did you choose your industry?I've been involved in marketing my entire career. What's changed is the target industry and my specific activity therein. I started in the heavy construction industry marketing a product that I developed for doing haul path calculations. Then, I marketed a product I helped develop called Civil Image Systems -- still to the heavy construction industry. Then, I went corporate joining the gorilla in the construction instrument space, Spectra-Physics Laserplane. Following a few mergers and acquisitions later, we became part of Thermo Instruments, the largest division of Thermo Electron, a 3.1B MIT spinout where I served as the V.P. of R&D within Spectra Precision. From there, I transitioned to NextFifteen Communications group where i served as the SVP of Technology and Global CTO for two years. 9/11 happened, my budget dried, and I returned to my entrepreneurial roots selling and marketing my very own event management system under Salesforce. Then, I spent the next several years building a couple of different companies until in 2007 when I launched and grew a multi-million dollar managed services company in the IT and Telecommunications space. In 2012, I sold out and entered the online digital marketing space. Today, I run a small boutique agency where we help pivotpreneurs find their way to freedom and riches.