Derick joined CA in October 2008 as Senior Director of Product Marketing. In this role, he leads product marketing for Business-Driven Automation, CA’s innovative approach to delivering extensible value by aggregating and streamlining IT processes/workflow, provisioning and change control, workloads, and service assurance. Prior to CA, Derick was a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Canada where he was responsible for developing strategic marketing initiatives for the security and system management product lines that are part of the Windows Server System including Microsoft Forefront, Microsoft System Center, and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Derick also served as CEO for InfoPeople Security Solutions Inc. (IPSS) and had various leadership roles within Intellitactics Inc. and Ernst & Young LLP. Derick graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Masters of Accounting specializing in Managerial Control Systems. He also holds various industry designations including Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and Chartered Accountant (CA).