# Mike Derezin

> Mike Derezin is a technology executive and lifelong entrepreneur who became CEO of Teaching Strategies, an early-childhood education company, in May 2025. He spent nearly a decade at LinkedIn, where he helped launch and scale LinkedIn Sales Solutions (Sales Navigator) and later ran LinkedIn Learning Solutions, growing it into one of the largest professional-development platforms in the world. Before LinkedIn he founded companies including Porvenir and VoxPop, advised Fortune 500 firms as a Bain & Company consultant, and taught elementary-school computer classes in Oakland and Santiago, Chile.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Teaching Strategies
- **Organizations:** Teaching Strategies, LinkedIn, Bain & Company, Porvenir, VoxPop, Semester at Sea
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Undergraduate degree (Phi Beta Kappa), University of California, Berkeley, MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Helped launch and scale LinkedIn Sales Solutions and the Sales Navigator product, popularizing social selling for enterprise sales teams, Grew LinkedIn Learning into one of the world's largest professional-development platforms with over 20,000 courses reaching tens of millions of members, Co-founded and helped sell Porvenir, an emerging-markets financial data company, to Thomson Financial/Thomson Reuters

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Taught elementary-school computer classes in Oakland, California and Santiago, Chile
- **Pre-2010** — Consultant at Bain & Company, advising Fortune 500 companies and private equity firms
- **Pre-2013** — Co-founded companies including Porvenir (emerging-markets financial data, acquired by Thomson Financial/Thomson Reuters) and VoxPop
- **2013** — Joined LinkedIn; helped launch and grow LinkedIn Sales Solutions and Sales Navigator as VP of Sales Solutions
- **2017** — Became VP of LinkedIn Learning Solutions, scaling the platform to 20,000+ courses
- **2025-05** — Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Teaching Strategies, effective May 6, 2025

## Achievements

- Helped launch and scale LinkedIn Sales Solutions and the Sales Navigator product, popularizing social selling for enterprise sales teams
- Grew LinkedIn Learning into one of the world's largest professional-development platforms with over 20,000 courses reaching tens of millions of members
- Co-founded and helped sell Porvenir, an emerging-markets financial data company, to Thomson Financial/Thomson Reuters
- Graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley and earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Served nearly a decade as a trustee for Semester at Sea
- Created and personally taught LinkedIn Learning courses on leading through change and data-driven decision making

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Named Chief Executive Officer of Teaching Strategies, an early-childhood education technology company, effective May 6, 2025.

## Links

- Website: https://about.me/mikederezin
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikederezin/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/mikedfresh
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-tQMw_CH50
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikederezin

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Last updated: 2026-07-30