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Lopez Lobos Sports Rewind | Derek Cram

Published 1:30 am Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Gene Helfman/ Contributed photo
Derek Cram drives off the sixth tee at the Lopez Golf Course, March 2011.

Gene Helfman/ Contributed photo

Derek Cram drives off the sixth tee at the Lopez Golf Course, March 2011.

By Gene Helfman

Special to The Weekly

Derek Cram attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, graduating in 2018 with a communications studies major and a Social Entrepreneurship and Business minor. While in college, he had an internship at Heller Brothers, a business run by the late Steve Heller, a Lopez resident.

Cram then worked for three years at Northwestern Mutual Insurance, familiarizing himself with the financial services industry. He is now employed as a Financial Advisor with Portland, Oregon, based Financial Reserve, a financial planning firm. Portland gives him access to mountain skiing, and he also enjoys creating electronic music and reading about naval history.