Derek Ruth Email Address

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

It's emphasizing learning and creativity.

Derek Ruth, Founder / CEO of HIVOT, is a proven innovation leader with over 25 years experience delivering digital strategy solutions and a proven track record of successful product development, process transformation, and ideation. With a career of both building and operating, Derek has deep experience transforming, building, and leading high functioning organizations of all sizes. In his current post, Derek looks to bring his knowledge and experience of transformation and process improvement to construction. Working on solutions that generate, manage, and use data more efficiently. Derek's extensive consulting experience includes Digital transformation initiatives for the world's leading companies, including Fortune 100 corporations in the automotive, manufacturing, retail, and finance sectors. A serial entrepreneur, Derek co-founded his first company while still attending college. During the dot-com boom in the early '90s, his small branding firm moved to LA's Silicon Coast and advised and created early websites for a host of Fortune 500 companies, including Apple Computer, the GRAMMY Awards, and Cinemax. The company was also a pioneer in online movie marketing, creating award-winning websites for several movie studios and films, including "The Crow" and "Jerry Maguire." In the early 00's, Derek and his co-founder transformed how screenwriters gained access to education and insider knowledge when they created The Script Lab. A comprehensive free resource for screenwriters around the globe, forever democratizing the secret handshake of scriptwriting.