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.