Primary Job Title Vice President, Business Development Primary Organization 
CMO Council
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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DeRose brings to GlobalFluency more than 12 years of direct and channel sales and business development experience in the Technology, Telecom, Professional Services and Manufacturing verticals. As the Senior Director of Business Development, DeRose leads global sponsorship and partnership activities for GlobalFluency's affinity networks,
including the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network, and the Coalition to Leverage and Optimize Sales Effectiveness (CLOSE). In this role DeRose works to craft and execute Intelligent Marketing Engagement™ campaigns to drive authority leadership, demand generation and new business opportunities for global enterprises.
Prior to joining GlobalFluency DeRose spent over 5 years at the American Electronics Association (AEA), the nations largest technology trade association, as the Director, Membership Development in the Silicon Valley office. DeRose was tasked with new member development and retention of the associations 500 members located in the Silicon Valley chapter. In this role DeRose worked with industry leaders Sun Microsystems, HP, Intel, Cisco, Varian Medical, Google, Intuit and others to activate grass-roots lobbying efforts at the state, federal and international levels to promote growth within the technology industry.
DeRose spent the first four years of his career as the Strategic Accounts Manager at Questlink Technology, the world's largest e-commerce supplier of electronic components and computer products. This position required DeRose to forge strong alliances among channel distribution partners and OEM clients such as Ingram Micro, Arrow Electronics, Avnet, CDW, Intel, Samsung, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Sanmina-SCI, Flextronics, Clestica, Tyco, Dell, HP and others to streamline their supply chain to drive out excess costs and shorten the production and new product introduction cycle.
