DEREK PEW
Derek is the Chairman of BCP and has served as a Director since its inception.  Derek serves on the Boards of Directors of Remi Communications, Global Communities, Inc. and IDEal Linux, Inc., and is a member of the Management Committee of The Pew Consulting Group.  Derek also serves on the Board of MANNA Pennsylvania (the Metropolitan AIDS Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance), on the Advisory Board of The Greene Towne School.  Derek began his career as an investment banker with Bankers Trust Company and, thereafter, as an attorney with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.  From 1988 to 1998, he completed over $70 billion worth of transactions, the last of which was the merger of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX.  Derek was the primary architect of the first-of-its-kind international exchangeable security for the liquidation of Bell Atlantic’s interest in Telecom New Zealand and the primary draftsperson of the landmark first “plain English” merger proxy for the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX merger.  Derek was also involved in venture capital transactions including the first two rounds of funding for WebTV. 

During 1998 and 1999, Derek was the President of The Furst Group, Inc., a privately held international, integrated communications provider which focused on developing Internet and telecommunications solutions for ethnic populations.  There, Derek had P&L responsibility for over $70 million in revenue and managed over 900 employees, turning that company around from two straight years of losses to over $8.5 million in cash flow in one year.  Derek has a B.A. with honors in Economics from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania where he was a published articles editor of the Law Review.

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