Derrick Lewis – Founder & Creative Director

Derrick is the founder of ISLANDpeople, one of the leading event management companies in the region. As founder, he stewards the company’s vision to be the most innovative event management company in the world. As a company with innovation at its core, it is led by its creative director. In this position, he sets the performance targets, oversees the strategic direction and approves all creative content to ensure its effectiveness and performance.

Prior to this Derrick worked in the Marketing Department of the advertising support company Advent Information Systems on the prestigious 5th Avenue in New York.

Derrick is also the Director of Marketing at Lewis Appliances, the third largest distributor of GE Appliances in the Caribbean and a project consultant to the United Nations (UNICEF). In 2005 he co-developed and produced Xchange, a regional youth anti-violence campaign which remains a Caribbean wide program for The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Born on Nelson Street in East Port of Spain, one of the most depressed areas in the country, Derrick attended Diego Martin Secondary School and Trinity College. At 18 he received a football scholarship to Long Island University where he completed his B.Sc. in Marketing. On an academic scholarship, he received his MBA in 1987. Married for over twenty (20) years, he enjoys the simple family life when time permits.

A sportsman at heart, Derrick, although captain of his school’s cricket team, enjoyed better success in football as a former Trinidad & Tobago national football team player.

Derrick served on the Board of Governors of National Institute of Higher Education Research Science and Technology (NIHERST), and also is a guest lecturer for Management Studies Department of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.

Derrick was one of the first two Caribbean speakers at the ISES (International special event services) Event World Conference in Florida, August 2008 as a founding member of the Trinidad & Tobago chapter in formation of ISES.