Mike Derezin is vice president of learning solutions at LinkedIn. He is responsible for leading and scaling the global field sales and customer success teams for LinkedIn Learning, a leading online learning solution with more than 16,000 courses taught by expert, industry-leading instructors. Derezin is passionate about the power of lifelong learning to help people realize their professional aspirations and take advantage of new career opportunities. Prior to his role with LinkedIn Learning Solutions, he helped launch and then grow LinkedIn Sales Solutions, the company’s offering for sales professionals and sales organizations.

Derezin is a lifelong entrepreneur, having founded several companies, including an emerging markets financial services company that was acquired by Thomson Reuters. In between entrepreneurial ventures, Mike advised Fortune 500 companies and private equity firms as a consultant at Bain & Co. Mike graduated from the University of California Berkeley with Phi Beta Kappa honors and holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Business School.