Management Team
David Derrick – Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Mr. Derrick served as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of Biomune Systems Inc. between 1989 and 1998. From 1996 to 1999 Mr. Derrick served as chairman of the board of directors of the Purizer Corporation and from 1979 to 1982 was a faculty member at the University of Utah College of Business. Mr. Derrick earned a bachelor of arts degree in economics and a masters in business administration with an emphasis in finance from the University of Utah. Mr. Derrick has been the major financier and driving force in many new businesses. During the early 1980s he helped create the community of Deer Valley, an exclusive ski resort outside of Park City, Utah. In 1985 he founded and funded a company that pioneered the Smart Home concept - the computerized home. The company is known as Vantage Systems and is today a leader in this field.
James Dalton - Vice Chairman
From 1987 to 1997, Mr. Dalton was the owner and president of Dalton Development, a real estate development company. Mr. Dalton served as the president and coordinated the development of the Pinnacle project in Deer Valley, Utah, a 86-unit condominium project at a cost of $50 million. Mr. Dalton also served as the president and equity owner of Club Rio Mar in Puerto Rico. Club Rio Mar is a 680 - acre beach front property including 500 condominiums, beach club, numerous restaurants, pools and a Fazio-designed golf course. Finally, as the founder and owner of the Deer Valley Club Mr. Dalton developed a high-end and world-class ski project, including 25 condominiums that have a ski-in and ski-out feature. More recently, Mr. Dalton has served as an officer and director of Biomune Systems, Inc., a public company located in Salt Lake City. Mr. Dalton was active in the daily activities of the business and instrumental in the funding of the Company.
John Hastings – President RemoteMDx and SecureAlert
Joining the Company in 2008, John Hastings brought 23 years of progressive general management, marketing and sales experience in 30 countries with Nestle/Stouffer's, Kraft/General Foods, Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp., NCR/Teredata, Unisys Corp. and VNU/ACNielsen.
With an MBA from Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, John spent eight years with VNU/ACNielsen, a $4.5B+ global research, media and publications company headquartered in New York, where he last served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of VNU MI Global Business Intelligence. Most recently, Hastings has been the interim President & CEO of Klever Marketing, Inc. of Salt Lake City, where he has overseen the company's recent-term financial clean-up and business transformation.
Blake T Rigby – Chief Financial and Operations Officer
Blake is a seasoned veteran with 26 years of effective management, start-up, emerging growth, turnaround expert, finance, treasury, operations, corporate development strategist, business development, strategic growth positioning and marketing, and performance & increased shareholder value experience. Mr. Rigby has worked for companies such as KPMG Peat Marwick/Arthur Andersen, Armstrong Electric, Gastronomy, Inc., Network Business Systems, Challenger Schools, Feature Films for Families, O’Currance Telservices, and NWB Shoshone Economic Development Corp. Mr. Rigby received his BS Accounting from University of Utah and his MBA from James Madison University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Bernadette Suckel – Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
Previously to joining RemoteMDx, Bernadette served as VP, Business Intelligence at the Nielsen Company. In this capacity she oversaw the implementation of complex Business Intelligence implementations, acting as the Strategic Engagement Manager on high profile projects. She provided strategic project management, coordinating the efforts of a multitude of resources from not only within Nielsen, but from external partners as well. While at Nielsen, Bernadette also served in strategic marketing and sales capacities, bringing new analytic offerings to market. Key among these offerings was Consumer Direct, a joint service with Internet giant Yahoo.
Before joining Nielsen, Bernadette was Managing Director, Consumer Goods Manufacturing and Distribution Industry, at Internet Software start-up, Cogit.com. She headed the industry vertical for Cogit.Com, leading the definition of product offerings and sales efforts. This vertical accounted for nearly 50% of Cogit.com’s revenues. Key clients included Nabisco, Kmart and Polk.
Bernadette has a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University at Fresno.Bruce G. Derrick – Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Derrick has extensive experience in management of custom solutions development and customer management in the wireless telecom marketplace. From 2001 to 2004 he was a senior product development manger for WatchMark Corporation, a company that collects cellular network performance data for quality assurance and capacity planning. From 1997 to 2001 Mr. Derrick was responsible for forming and managing the professional services team for Marconi's MSI division. From 1996 to 1997 Mr. Derrick provided technical project management of application scalability testing and quality control at Boeing and Western Wireless. From 1989 to 1996 Mr. Derrick built and managed the corporate computer and network operations department for Avaya's Mosaix division. From 1983 to 1989 he served as senior programmer in applied research at the University of Utah's Department of Medical Informatics, where he developed and implemented medical informatics and physiological monitoring services for ICU care. He also participated in development of IEEE standards for automated physiological monitoring for NASA's Space Station program. Mr. Derrick holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Utah.