Mike Derezin is VP of Sales Solutions at LinkedIn. Mike helped launch LinkedIn's Sales Solutions, the company’s premium solutions for sales professionals and sales organizations. He is responsible for leading and scaling the global field sales and product consulting teams. Passionate about how social media has positively disrupted the way the world traditionally sells, Mike is an engaging speaker and thought-leader on social selling. Before his current role, Mike led LinkedIn's Global Solutions and Research teams.

Mike is a lifelong entrepreneur, having founded, grown, and sold several companies, including an emerging markets financial services company (Porvenir acquired by Thomson Reuters, at the time, Thomson Financial). In between entrepreneurial ventures, Mike advised Fortune 500 companies and private equity firms as a consultant at Bain & Co. Mike graduated from UC Berkeley with Phi Beta Kappa honors and holds an MBA from Stanford Business School.