Derek Broes formerly served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Business Development at Paramount Pictures, A Viacom Company. At Paramount Broes has been responsible for establishing digital strategy and helping to drive the companies most public partnerships such as the Apple Itunes, Amazon, and Walmart partnerships. Prior to joining Paramount in 2006 Derek lead the global wireless strategy and business development team for Windows Media® at Microsoft Corp., pushing entertainment convergence within the wireless space. Broes has been at the forefront of media and technology for more than a decade and is nationally recognized as an influential leader in the film and high-tech industries.

He was appointed as executive vice president for the world’s largest streaming media aggregator and later as chairman and chief executive officer of a digital media security company. Broes also helped pioneer the development of key technologies used by copyright owners in preventing piracy of music and films over the Internet’s peer-to-peer community.

Broes started his career in Los Angeles, where he spearheaded a production company called Goodbro Pictures with Hollywood star and partner Cuba Gooding Jr. Broes was Gooding’s personal manager and later executive producer through several critically acclaimed and successful films, including the popular “Jerry Maguire,” for which Gooding earned an Academy Award.

Broes is currently working on stealth development projects where he has once again began developing the technology and not just building the business. Broes' projects are focused on a true form of data science that evaluates temporal data structures within and non control public access environment online. Additionally, Broes has been developing products that allow privacy to once again remain at the forefront of the user. With recent revelations of overreach on behalf of agencies breaching personal privacy in email services such as Gmail, Hotmail and other, Broes has been establishing a form of private network structures that do not rely on any service that may be vulnerable to such violations of privacy. Project DWARF is his latest craft and creation and his most prominent brain child,

In addition, in May 2002, Broes founded the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) www.dcia.info , a nonprofit organization working toward a viable framework for the Internet peer-to-peer community