DEREK BARKA
MEET DEREK
PARTNER, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
As Chief Technology Officer at SilverTech, Derek defines and drives the agency’s technology vision—helping clients harness data, digital platforms, and emerging technologies to solve complex business challenges and build meaningful, lasting customer relationships.
Known for finding solutions to the toughest and most complicated technology challenges, Derek combines innovation with deep expertise across enterprise architecture, cloud infrastructure, custom development, and big data. He brings a security-first mindset and a sharp focus on privacy and compliance, enabling organizations to build secure, scalable, and future-ready digital ecosystems.
Derek serves as a strategic adviser to both SilverTech’s technology partners and clients. He works closely with platform providers—often consulting on product roadmaps—to ensure solutions align with real-world business needs and deliver maximum value. He also helps client organizations develop and execute digital roadmaps that make the most of their existing systems and data, integrating legacy technologies with modern platforms where and when it makes sense to drive growth, stay competitive, and support long-term success.
Throughout his career, Derek has played a key role in shaping the tools and platforms that power modern digital marketing. He is a recognized authority and thought leader in the martech space—recently named a Kentico MVP and Progress Sitefinity Champion. Derek holds numerous certifications, including Kentico Developer, Kentico Marketer, Sitefinity Developer, and Sitecore Developer.
SilverTech Announces Strategic Partnership with Staffbase
2/5/26
New partnership expands SilverTech’s end-to-end digital experience, data integration, and transformation capabilities with enterprise employee communications and engagement solutions
Staffbase Recognized in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Intranet Packaged Solutions
Bedford, NH — February 5, 2026 — SilverTech, a digital experience consultancy focused on growth and transformation, today announced a new strategic partnership with Staffbase, the first AI-native employee experience platform and a recognized vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Intranet Packaged Solutions. Through this partnership, SilverTech will deliver end-to-end Staffbase strategy, design, implementation, data integration, and optimization services to help organizations modernize internal communications and connect employee experience with broader digital growth initiatives.
As organizations invest in connected digital ecosystems to drive performance and transformation, employee experience has become a critical pillar. Staffbase enables enterprises to unify internal communications across channels — including intranet, employee apps, email, and SMS — creating more informed, engaged, and aligned workforces at scale.
SilverTech’s focus on connecting experience, data, platforms, and operations aligns directly with the value Staffbase brings to enterprise organizations seeking measurable impact from their communications technology investments.
Through this partnership, SilverTech will support customers with:
● Staffbase platform strategy
● Experience design and content architecture
● Technical implementation and solution configuration
● Enterprise data and system integration across HR, CRM, CMS, marketing, and operational platforms
● Migration and modernization of legacy intranet and communications platforms
“Organizations can’t achieve true digital transformation or sustained growth if their employee experience is disconnected from their data and systems,” said Chris Crombie, Chief Growth Officer at SilverTech. “Staffbase gives enterprises a powerful platform to unify and modernize employee communications. Our strength in digital ecosystem transformation and data integration ensures Staffbase is not just implemented — it’s fully connected — so organizations can activate smarter communications and measurable business impact.”
SilverTech works with mid-market and enterprise organizations across regulated and complex industries — including financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, government, retail and consumer goods, helping them modernize digital ecosystems and deliver high-impact experiences.
"SilverTech's deep expertise in digital transformation and enterprise system integration makes them an ideal partner to help organizations maximize the value of our AI-native platform," said Simon Weigh, Sr. Director of Sales and Alliances at Staffbase. "As enterprises deploy AI capabilities to support their workforce, the challenge isn't just implementation, it's driving actual adoption, especially among frontline and deskless employees. SilverTech understands that real impact comes from connecting AI-powered employee experiences with the data, systems, and workflows that drive daily operations. Their proven track record with complex enterprise implementations ensures our joint customers can turn Staffbase into a true adoption engine, delivering capabilities that employees can actually access and use to get answers, complete tasks, and stay aligned, regardless of their role or location."
This partnership further expands SilverTech’s ecosystem of leading experience and platform partners and supports its continued focus on helping organizations build connected, optimized digital growth engines.
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