Derek leads product marketing, partner marketing, and communications for Rightware, the leader in automotive UI software. Building on a career in product management and strategic planning in smartphone software and hardware platforms as well as telecoms, he most recently led cloud and data center community evangelism at Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. Derek’s degrees span technology and business, with an engineering master’s degree from the University of Michigan, business studies at Aalto University in Helsinki, and ongoing doctoral studies in technology-driven businesses and platform economies.