Derek Schott

Derek has spent his career servicing the needs of customers. He began at GTE which later became Verizon. First as a network engineer and quickly gravitating to sales. Prior to joining Netsafe, he was a national account director managing an east coast team. Drawn to the life long desire to be a leader in a small business, Derek joined the Netsafe team in 2006.

Derek is the treasurer of his home owners association, with a $650,000 budget for 950 homes. He is proud of a recent project that was spearheaded by him, which was to install two irrigation wells and expand the irrigation system by a linear mile. By doing this, he was able to save his community $25,000 per year.

Working with other small business owners, Derek’s passion is to help owners eliminate cost and simplify their communications infrastructure. He helps them decide to host or move their key applications to the cloud or to utilize a site based one. He has found that setting clear priorities at a lower cost are the keys to a great success.