Location Greater Philadelphia Area, Pennsylvania, United States Regions Great Lakes, Northeastern US Gender Male
Website greenphire.com/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Derek Bluestone is Greenphire’s Chief Product Officer - leading product strategy and design for our solutions. Derek has a 30 year product management track record, leading enterprise B2B product and engineering teams most recently with Relay Network, Billtrust and Nasdaq.
Career Highlights: • Strategic exit - Billtrust via IPO at 10x revenue
multiple ($1.3B) • Rule of 50 performance/Thoma Bravo backed SaaS business (Greenphire) • 100% ARR growth in 4 years & return to EBITDA positive (Relay Network) • Launched 30+ profitable, multi-million dollar SaaS products in the last 10 years • Co-founded software company, grew it into a multi-million dollar business (StratosWare) • Increased revenue from $12M- $85M while increasing profit margin (Fiberlink) • 20% sales growth for a $600M/yr. solution portfolio (Unisys) • 25% sales growth for a $270M/yr. SaaS portfolio (IBM - Kenexa) • 20% annual organic growth for a $120M/yr. Fintech SaaS portfolio (Billtrust) • Four Product of the Year Awards (Sungard Availability Services) • Consistent Achievement of "Leader" placement in Gartner Magic Quadrant • Three Product Patents • Scaled Relay Network solution to 75M+ consumers • Seeing current and former team members/colleagues achieve their professional goals
Derek holds a MPA from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs and a B.A. in Political Science from Earlham College. Derek is Scrum & Pragmatic Marketing certified and holds software architecture certifications from Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute. Derek holds three patents with the USPTO.
