Management Team

Melissa Derrick -Founder/Chief Financial Officer

Founder of MariChris, LLC, one of the most focused HIT Software Services providers in the United States. Derrick has extensive experience with Healthcare at the Point-of-Care. Today she is focused on the investments in software and personnel to deliver best in class solutions to the providers and payers in the healthcare space. She has partnered with The Experts, Inc. to provide a full complement of HIT Solutions. MariChris is a 100% Woman Owed business.

Thomas Derrick – President

Information technology professional with over twenty five years of business expertise specializing in optimizing people, processes, and technology. Focused expertise is in business development, IT software delivery, operations management, and business process improvement across numerous industry verticals. Thomas is passionate about building lasting client relationships. Responsible for ensuring that our account teams are properly leading our client engagements and bringing new ideas to the client relationships, Thomas orchestrates cross functional teams that drive collaboration and results. Serving as a team mentor team and a champion continuous improvement throughout the organization, Thomas enjoys solving complex healthcare IT challenges and the application of efficient technology solutions, especially in this era of healthcare reform.

Bruce Whitehead – Sr. Vice President/Chief Development Officer

With 42 years of system development and project management experience, Bruce Whitehead possesses a broad range of skill sets based upon his variety of professional assignments. While his specialty is healthcare application development, with over 25 years and a dozen state agencies to his credit, Bruce maintains both his technical skills,and his commercial application interests.

Bruce has managed large-scale projects, designed complex data management systems, and has developed software applications for his entire career. He also trains, markets,and supports his software products through presentations, formalized training, and one-on-one sessions.

Mr. Whitehead has extensive application related experience, including:

  • MMIS Claims & Recipient Subsystems
  • Benefit Plan Design & Administration
  • Eligibility Determination Applications
  • Traceability & Certification Solutions
  • Decision Support Systems, and
  • Case Management Systems