Mr. Rick DeRose

biography

I am the Founder and Managing Partner of Technology Executive Group. In addition to overall management responsibility for TEG’s administrative and financial operations, I collaborate with my team to develop and implement strategies aimed at expanding the firm’s capabilities and creating global brand awareness in its highly specialized sectors.

I lead the Communications Services Practice and have excelled in recruiting top senior and C-level executives to rapidly growing companies—Hibernia Atlantic, Windstream Communications, Cbeyond, RCN, NTTA and Neutral Tandem among them. As many firms have stepped up their M&A activities to drive expansion strategies in recent years, I have responded to the burgeoning needs of my clients by establishing a further expertise recruiting CFO talent within public and private equity-backed communications and technology companies. Prior to founding TEG in 1995, I spent a decade progressing through an array of leadership roles at Cable and Wireless Communications, the global communications firm. I earned a B.S. with Honors in Accounting from St. Joseph’s University and an M.B.A. from Drexel University.

Since 2010, I have also served as Managing Partner of International Technology Partners (ITP), a global alliance of technology search firms whose mission is to provide global clients with senior level executive search solutions as they upgrade and expand into new regions around the world. I am an active member of several local and national executive technology committees and, in addition to ITP, serve on the boards of Magellan Hill Technologies and the Virginia-based Telecom Hub. My charitable interests are many and include Food for the Poor, Big Brothers Big Sisters and The Multiple Sclerosis Society.