Derek is a co-founder of BraddockMatthews and brings over two decades of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to founding BraddockMatthews, Derek was a senior partner for eight years at another well-known asset management and financial services search firm, HigdonBraddockMatthews, and previously spent more than 10 years across a range of financial services sales, product management and marketing roles. Derek has extensive expertise in search and recruitment, with particular focus on investment and sales/marketing professionals, notably in the alternative investments arena, as well as traditional asset management, family offices, and endowments & foundations. Derek began his career in sales and marketing with Lord, Abbett & Co. and Salomon Smith Barney. After receiving his M.B.A. in 2000, he spent over four years at Charles Schwab Company in San Francisco, marketing to the institutional and RIA marketplace. Derek earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Derek has served on the Association of Executive Search Consultants' (AESC) Americas Council and on the Board of Directors for Per Scholas, a non-profit organization focused on workforce development in low-income communities.