Entrepreneur
Derrick Hakim is an entrepreneur with expertise in business, technology, and the creative arts. He has achieved significant success in content marketing through Search Holdings LLC, authored for ‘Brew Your Own‘ magazine, and produced nationally released records for Rave Records, Inc. His ability to quickly master new concepts drives his success across diverse ventures.
Content Creator
He is a content creator and website builder promoting his own products and his partner’s products through his company, Search Holdings, LLC, a digital marketing company that specializes in content creation and affiliate marketing. He is also a popular homebrewing YouTuber.
Author
Derrick Hakim is a published author with writings on homebrewing that have been featured in the print and web versions of Brew Your Own Magazine and popular websites like homebrewtalk.com. He also writes for his own websites, including: BiabBrewing.com and InnovativeSynthesis.com.
Security Alarm Expert
Derrick has spent over 30 years in the security industry specializing in commercial security, card access control, fire alarms, video surveillance, medical alert systems, and gunshot detection systems. He is the Vice President at Central Alarm Signal, Inc., and spends his time evaluating, designing, marketing, and selling these solutions to businesses of all sizes. He has been a licensed Fire Alarm Specialty Technician since 1993, in Michigan.
Founder
- Derrick is the Founder and CEO of Search Holdings, LLC (2004 – Present)
Search Holdings, LLC is a digital marketing company that specializes in content creation and affiliate marketing.
- Derrick is the Founder and CEO of Flare Stack Mining, LLC (2022 to Present)
Flare Stack Mining, LLC is a crypto mining firm mining primarily Bitcoin and Helium. It’s an exciting and evolving industry that Derrick hopes to see continued growth in.
- Derrick was Co-Founder & Managing Member of Logical Acquisitions & New Development, LLC (1998 – 2015) and Logical Real Estate Group, LLC (2005 – 2014)
Logical Acquisitions & New Development, LLC was a commercial real estate investment and management company specializing in office properties and Logical Real Estate Group, LLC was a real estate brokerage company. Derrick was involved in the acquisition, disposition, leasing, tenant improvements and management of a multi-million dollar portfolio of office properties located in southeast lower Michigan and Midland Michigan.
Notable tenants included: Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), Oakland County Michigan Community Corrections, Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), Dow Chemical Corporation, Dow Corning Corporation, MeGlobal Americas, and Deloitte.
Derrick has been a licensed Real Estate Broker since 2005 and licensed Residential Builder since 1992, in Michigan.
- Derrick was the co-founder and President of Rave Records, Inc. & Magic Brain Music (ASCAP) (1992 – 1998)
Rave Records, Inc. was an independent record label that operated out of one of Detroit’s best know recording studios – Sound Suite Studios. Magic Brain Music was a publishing company for Rave’s artists.
Rave had national releases which included “Wonderful” by bukimi3, and “The Garden…The Smile” by Dorothy. Other acts included Cybercryst,, Nicole, and dance originals and remixes by Art Forest, co-songwriter of “Big Fun” by Inner City. Listen to Rave’s releases on SoundCloud.com.
His main passion was in the production side of the business, and Derrick was the producer and executive producer of much of the music that the company recorded and released. Rave primarily produced and released alternative acts and worked with some dance artists and producers as well.
Derrick is a musician and recordist with a passion for large format analog recording and maintains a hybrid analog-digital recording studio. He can play multiple instruments which has made him a well-rounded producer. He is well-versed on a wide-array of recording gear, and has a passion for large-format analog tape-based and tube recording equipment.