Derek Christian: Area Sales Manager
- Raised in North West Alabama.
- Played Jr. College Baseball.
- Graduated from the University of Alabama, Business Degree.
- Derek spent 13 years of Sales, Marketing & Project Management with Coral Industries, a leading shower door manufacturer and Randall-Reilly Marketing Agency. With both companies, Derek traveled the USA, leading sales presentations, working trade shows and entertaining customers and prospective customers. He brings excellent knowledge in prospecting, educating, developing and growing sales via marketing programs through many market channels.
- He has a wife of 16 years, a 13 year old daughter and a 10 year old son.
- Derek enjoys his time away from work outdoors: fishing, hunting, golf, watersports, coaching baseball. He is very active with his church and values his time with his family.
Territory:
- Derek covers AL (Tuscaloosa, North of Birmingham & Anniston). MS (North of Jackson) and the entire State of TN.
- Specifics to Derek’s territory: Services growing residential markets in Huntsville, AL, Jackson, MS, Chattanooga, Memphis, Knoxville & Nashville, TN. In his area, he services the largest Ferguson Showroom in the USA. This region has some of the largest hardware/lighting & furnishing showrooms in the Southeast. His area has some of our largest bath accessory, door hardware, mirror and shower doors dealers for our agency. There is a heavy concentration of Hospitality (hotel/motel) buying groups and Manufactured Housing Distribution and manufacturing in this area.
- Good concentration of Division 8 & Division 10 Commercial Dealers and two of the largest installing GC’s for multi-family market in the country.