Derek Scruggs, CEO and founder
Derek (blog, also here) most recently was founder and CEO of Escalan, an online marketing and web development agency. Derek is also the co-founder of Click Thru Stats, a "brain-dead simple" click-tracking service useful in everything from email marketing to searching engine advertising to web site traffic analysis. And he is also a former partner in FanPrints, which provided personalized collegiate print products. (And of which he now says: Sigh. RIP.)
Prior to all this stuff, Derek was the Permission Advocate for MessageMedia (now part of DoubleClick), a leading provider of email marketing technologies and services. In that role he served as an evangelist for the email marketing industry and as a consultant for clients such as Cisco Systems, Dell Computer, and E-Trade. He is a well-known industry expert on the topic of permission email marketing.
Before joining MessageMedia, Derek was founder and CEO of Distributed Bits, a developer of software that brought call center functionality to email. Distributed Bits was acquired by MessageMedia in 1998. A graduate of Northwestern University, Derek now lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
Derek is so fabulously successful, witty, charming and just plain good-looking that he's allowed to write his own bio.
