Derrell Ness

Derrell Ness, Sustainable Business Network of Portland, Oregon, is president and founder of NSA Distribution, a distributor of computerized cash registers and peripherals based in Cerritos, California. NSA celebrated its twentieth year in business in 2005. More recently, Derrell founded Community Payment Solutions, a provider of merchant credit card processing services. Derrell moved to Lake Oswego, Oregon, in 2003 and since then has served on the board of the Sustainable Business Network of Portland, the Portland BALLE Network. He played an active role in planning and implementing Portland’s Think Local First campaign, initially launched in November of 2004.