Derek Alderton

Derek Alderton
Managing Director



Derek Alderton has over 20 years experience in investment banking, consulting and turnaround work. He spent ten years with McKinsey & Company as Co-Head of their West Coast Media & Entertainment Practice, leaving to provide more personal service to entrepreneurial companies. He has led consulting studies in Aerospace, Financial Services, Health Care, Property Development, Technology and virtually every aspect of Media & Entertainment – all industries that rely on demanding and sometimes tempremental personnel. He has worked in 21 countries, leading teams of over 100 people on transactions as large as $12 Billion. His clients range from 3 person start-ups (which were eventually featured on the cover of Fortune magazine) to global Fortune 500 holding companies. He has provided key support in areas such as corporate and growth strategy, partner negotiations and licensing agreements, new market opportunity assessment, operational performance improvements and marketing strategy. Before consulting, Derek worked in the M&A area of investment banking. His work there involved international and multi-party alliance transactions, as well as conventional public and private company purchases in a wide variety of industries. Derek started his career working in insolvency administrations, where he helped turnaround, reorganize and manage businesses as diverse as hospitals and shipping lines. Derek has been published multiple times in the McKinsey Quarterly and is an invited speaker at numerous conferences, seminars and Board meetings. He teaches Strategy and Entertainment Strategy part-time in the MBA program at UCLA. Derek holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, and has degrees in Law and Economics from the University of Sydney. He received a Graduate Diploma in Finance from the Securities Institute of Australia, and is a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants (the equivalent of a U.S. CPA).

E-mail: dalderton@mastventures.com