Derek joined Tufts Health Plan in 2004. He is responsible for the development of enterprise-wide and business line strategies. He leads Tufts Health Plan’s new business and corporate development initiatives and works with the senior leadership team to evaluate options and set the company’s strategic priorities. He also oversees the company’s market and competitive intelligence efforts and is responsible for primary market research.
Derek is also the managing director for Tufts Health Ventures. In this role, he leads the company's business expansion and diversification efforts, identifying and evaluating partnership, investment and acquisition opportunities. In addition, Derek leads negotiations with senior leaders of potential partners and investment or acquisition prospects.
Prior to joining Tufts Health Plan in 2004 as director of product strategy, Derek was a principal with Mercer Management Consulting, now Oliver Wyman, in Washington, D.C. and Boston, where he consulted to Fortune 500 companies in the energy, telecommunications and nonprofit industries on strategic and operational issues.
Derek serves on several boards, including Tufts Health Freedom Plan (health plan in New Hampshire), ConsejoSano (provider of health navigation services to Spanish speakers), and The SEED Foundation (operator of public college-preparatory boarding schools for underserved children in Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Miami).
Derek earned a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Yale University.