Family
Derry and his wife Lidy have 5 children ages 18 to 25. They attend Good Shepherd Parish in Mira Mesa.

Education
Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from Cal-Tech.
M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Mathematical Science
from University College, Cork, Ireland.

Career
In addition to his role as President at JP Catholic, Derry continues to represents the University of California, San Diego on the Executive Board of the Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT), and heads up CCAT mentoring services.

Since 2003, he has taught 'Applied Innovation' at the Von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement at UCSD.

Prior to co-founding JP Catholic, Derry worked full-time as the Associate Dean of Continuing Education at UCSD Extension, leading a program with 40,000 part-time adult students, 125+ full time staff (academic and administrative), 1500+ part-time Instructors. Derry spent 15 years working in industrial Research and Development with IBM and Kodak. He holds 8 US patents and has numerous technical publications.

Read Derry's resume.