Jack Derby, President, Derby Management
Hi, I'm Jack, Head Coach here at Derby Management
Prior to forming Derby Management, a management consulting firm specializing in business planning and rapid Sales & Marketing productivity improvement, my background included positions as...
- CEO, EarCheck,
- CEO, Mayer Electronics Corporation,
- President, CB Sports,
- President, Litton Industries Medical Systems,
- CEO, Datamedix Corporation
- EVP, Becton Dickinson Medical Systems.
I'm also a Professor of the Practice at Tufts, where I have taught courses for 20 years in "Entrepreneurial Marketing" and "The Science of Sales". In June 2021, my wife, Jan, and I donated $10 million to Tufts' School of Engineering founding The Derby Entrepreneurship Center.
I'm an Instructor at MIT teaching business principles in the Mechanical Engineering Department where I've
taught for 24 years.
I'm a heavily experienced board member, all of which you can review below.
Derby Management is a 30 plus year old boutique management consulting firm, focusing its expertise in three primary services for its 400+ customers, mostly located in New England and NYC since we want to be physically close to our customers if the need arises. Having said that, in 2025 we worked with numbers of companies located in the oil and gas industry in Texas.
Want to know more, just email me at jack@derbymanagement.com or text to 617-504-4222
-I'm currently a Director at Associated Industries of Massachusetts , Loci Controls and FulLife Nutrition
-I've been an active board member in 10 other corporate companies including Aviant Hospice (Chairman) Beacon Hospice (Chairman), Brainshark Corporation (Co-Founder and Chairman), Chase Corporation, Hybricon (Chairman), Ntirety, Research Frontiers, EarCheck (CEO & Chairman), Profile Systems, ROMAC, Anika Therapeutics (CEO), Spryance, Datamedix (CEO & Chairman), Mayer Electronics (CEO and Chairman), CB Sports (President) and Reiser (Chairman)
-I'm a graduate of Boston College and the United States Peace Corps serving in Tanzania.
-Finally, I work hard (sometimes successfully) to divide my time between working in Boston, teaching at MIT and Tufts, snowboarding at Stratton Mountain in southern Vermont during the winter and living and surfing on the beach in NH where I live. It actually works well...most of the time...
The Derby Entrepreneurship Center
Now entering into my 20th academic year, I'm a Professor of the Practice teaching Marketing and also a course titled "The Science of Sales" within the Derby Entrepreneurship Center @Tufts, where I was the Director of the Center before stepping down in 2019 to spend more time teaching, The Derby Center is a department within the Gordon Institute and the School of Engineering.
-I was awarded the Henry & Madeline Fischer "Teacher of the 2014-2015 Year" for the University and named the Cummings Family Professor of Entrepreneurship.
-In 2025, I was honored with being named a graduate mentor for the School of Engineering
-My Passion
"Exciting", "challenging", "complex" and "totally rewarding" are just a few of the immediate phrases that come to mind. In addition to the firm's work in adding deep value to our customers, which I love, teaching at Tufts and at MIT is one of the best thing that I do!
I teach a very Different Course
Since the worlds of Marketing and Sales are changing at breakneck speed, these classes are fast-paced, built on this year's strategies and tactics and engages these juniors and seniors in real life companies that have provided both classes with semester-long complex projects. Each of these six companies for each course (The Marketing Course and The Science of Sales Course) receives a team of five to six students who, prior to coming to the first class, have researched the companies, reviewed the project deliverables and formed themselves into working teams.
