A computer software entrepreneur having run or started half a dozen companies over the last twenty-five years. He is currently working on his start-up, Vinyl Dreams, a virtual music studio.  Most recently he was Chairman and CEO of Asset Control and prior to that, Double-Take Software. He has served on many corporate and non-profit boards and currently is a member of the Health Advisory Committee of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Chairs its Advisory Committee for the Center for Refugees and Disaster Response. Dean is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Berklee College of Music and for the New England Aquarium. He is active in USSA Freestyle skiing program and is a member of its Eastern Freestyle Competition Committee and a certified judge. Dean teaches part time at Leipzig, Germany’s HHL School of Management and was awarded its Honorary Professorship of Entrepreneurship. He is also a musician, playing jazz and rock.