OUR STORY

Our Story

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The Deal-Trak story begins back when Derek was running portfolio management at a medium sized private equity firm. Acting as a point of contact for multiple groups, he realized that there were multiple versions of supposedly the same data. Trying to extract excel-based data from the different business units was tedious and took an excessive amount of time to reconcile. Knowing that there was a better way of tracking all the data, he built a system himself. Over the period of a few months, Derek built a standardized excel template that connected to a SQL Server database that allowed for importing and exporting real-time data. Standardized reports were generated out of the database that were used for the Deal Team, Legal & Compliance and the back office. Derek thought that the benefits gained were only a fraction of what it could be accomplished by building a web-application. With management happy with the system in place and not having an appetite to build a more robust application, Derek left the firm to build Deal-Trak. It's taken well over a year to build Deal-Trak. If you are in the alternative investment space, Deal-Trak wants to support you to create an effective due diligence and compliance program for your firm and portfolio companies. If you find that your business is too heavily reliant on excel for consolidating data; you spend too much time reconciling your data; can't find important documents on your shared drive; have difficulty maintaining a list of vetted third parties; have gaps in your compliance controls, Deal-Trak is built specifically for you. Let us help you process the data so that you can spend time analyzing how to increase value for your investors.

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Derek Alef

CEO (Founder)

Derek Alef is the founder and CEO of Deal-Trak, the newest deal pipeline software for the alternative investment industry. Derek built Deal-Trak from scratch and has dedicated himself to supporting firms in tracking all data through the funding of an investment. Derek received dual MBA's in 2008 from the UCLA Anderson School of Business and the National University of Singapore. Prior to starting Deal-Trak, Derek has worked with many financial and technology firms including Goldman Sachs Realty Japan, Yardi, Dimensional Fund Advisors, Morgan Stanley, Perkin Elmer, Hawaiian Airlines, Fortress, Deutsche Bank, Mount Kellett, Sandspoint Capital Advisors and A&E Real Estate.