Our story

Our founders, Danielle Snow and Derek Ribbons, returned to Maine in 2020 following successful 20+ year start up careers in California. They each started their own businesses while working from their home in Turner. Caught in the loneliness of working primarily alone, needing some separation between work-life and home-life, and the challenges of starting a new business, they set out to find a flexible and vibrant workspace where they could work alongside other entrepreneurs and professionals who were investing in themselves and in growing the local economy.

While they could find space, they couldn’t always find the privacy they sometimes needed when working with clients. Additionally, they weren’t finding a space that encouraged community building, networking, and professional development to help one another succeed. So, they set out to create that space themselves resulting in 75 Park.

Our Team

  • Danielle Snow, Co-founder

    Danielle Snow is a Lewiston, Maine native, entrepreneur, coach, advisor and mentor. Her 20+ year career includes a successful track record of working at and leading businesses from zero to IPO, merger or acquisition. She’s responsible for bringing 200+ jobs to Lewiston, Maine during her tenure at Grand Rounds Health.

    An experienced executive with general management skills, Danielle’s focus has primarily been in Member Experience, Product Development and Operations. She’s worked in healthcare, consumer technology and digital media. Danielle also owns a coaching and advising business getinnerwise.com helping people and organizations to achieve their goals.

    Danielle holds a BA and MA in Communication from the University of Maine. She completed an MBA with a focus in Technology Management and is a Hudson Certified and ICF certified coach.

  • Derek Ribbons, Co-founder

    Derek Ribbons grew up in Waterville and Old Town, Maine. He’s is a software engineer with 20+ years experience in companies ranging from small startups (as small as 2 employees) to large enterprises (200,000+ employees). Derek’s large, well-known companies include eBay, HP, and LinkedIn; his smaller endeavors include Vacapedia, eTrigue, and Drobo.

    He is a full stack engineer with a passion for solving interesting problems. As our entrepreneur-in-residence, in addition to providing advice and guidance to the members of 75 Park, Derek is working on a new endeavor, Upwardly.homes. Upwardly is reinventing the rent-to-own industry making it non-predatory and creating home ownership accessibility for people in disadvantaged situations.

    Derek graduated from the University of Maine’s Maine School of Business with a BS in Business Management.