Name: Derek Brink
Company: RSA Security
Job Title: VP of Corporate Development
Bio: Derek Brink combines a strong technical/analytical background with more than 20 years of high technology business experience in the areas of sales, marketing, product management, product marketing, strategy and market analysis. As RSA Security's vice president of corporate development, his mission is to provide overall strategic direction and vision for the company, evaluate and develop major new business opportunities, and build and strengthen relationships with key partners. He was previously the product line director for RSA SecurID.
Derek was an active member of the five-company team that co-founded the PKI Forum, and as RSA Security's representative was a member of the PKI Forum Executive Board and subsequently the Steering Committee for the OASIS Member Section on PKI. He is co-author of the book PKI: Implementing and Managing E-Security (ISBN: 0072131233). He is a frequent industry speaker with the ability to articulate unique insights on enterprise- and security-related technology topics from a solid business perspective.
Before joining RSA Security in 1999, his experience includes director of marketing at Gradient Technologies; various marketing and business development positions with Transarc Corporation (a subsidiary of IBM); corporate marketing with Sun Microsystems; and a variety of sales and field marketing positions with Hewlett-Packard. He began his professional career as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Derek earned an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Applied Mathematics with highest honors from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He also holds a second degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do.