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Derek Peterson (born 1974) is an American entrepreneur and a resident of Laguna Beach, California. He started GrowOp Technology in 2010 which sold mobile trailers with equipment for growing medical marijuana. In February 2012, he executed a reverse takeover and became the Chairman, CEO and President of Terra Tech Corporation, a publicly traded firm that produces and sells cannabis products. The company has several subsidiaries such as Edible Garden, a company which is into cannabis operations in Nevada and California, retail brand Blum and wholesale brand IVXX. The revenues for the company in 2016 were $ 25.33 million.

Derek quit his career as an investment banker at Wall Street before entering the marijuana industry. He began his career at Cromwell, Weedon & Co and then worked at Wachovia Securities. In 2008, he became the senior Vice President at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.