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John E. Derrick

John E. Derrick

Mentor/Advisor, Alacrity Semiconductor
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John Derrick is currently the SVP, Engineering & Technology at AustinGIS, Mentor / Advisor at Innovation Crossroads (Oak Ridge National Labs), Advisor at Lux Semiconductors, Tunoptix, Salience Labs, SolidState.ai, Investor / CEO at Skywriter Systems, .. 

He has served in public companies - President / COO at MIPS, GM at Intel, VP/GM at Parthus Technologies and I have led six companies as CEO and assisted a couple dozen more as an interim CXX, board member, or advisor. Derrick has led three to successful acquisition as CEO and assisted six additional companies that have been acquired. Companies were acquired by Parthus Technologies, Intel Corporation, ARM, Grid Dynamics, Kemet, NetApp, Qualcomm, VMWare, and Ampere Computing.

Derrick currently mentors, advises, and tries to help entrepreneurs with Innovation Crossroads (ORNL), Yale Entrepreneurship Initiative, Iowa State University, University of Tennessee, and others.