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Vice President, Solutions

Bill Eggers is Vice President, Solutions, for Derive Technologies, and has been in his position with the company since the year, 2000. Mr. Eggers leads Derive’s Healthcare and Public Sector Practices, including the development of vertical-focused solution offerings. He is also responsible for developing unique strategic alliances with key providers of services and products in support of these practices and Derive’s overall solutions.

Mr. Eggers was co-founder of a predecessor to Derive in the mid 1980s. In his role with that company, he had extensive involvement in nascent computer networking with Novell, 3-Com, IBM, Microsoft and many others, in services and project management, and ultimately became responsible for its national service organization. When this predecessor company was acquired by MicroAge – a fortune 500 company – Mr. Eggers was made Regional Service Director responsible for all services in the Northeast.

Mr. Eggers was educated at New York University and Columbia University, having achieved degrees in Computer Science and Politics. He has also studied and performed research in Social Psychology pertaining to group interactions in the Internet and other virtual environments. Mr. Eggers is a longtime volunteer with the Greater New York Red Cross, has been a Shelter Manager with a NY-based on call team (PROTeam), and is a licensed Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) driver. In addition, he is registered nationally with the Disaster Service Human Resources (DSHR) network, and has extensive Red Cross and FEMA training.