Roman Makovitskiy
Mark Davies
Dean DeBaise
Dean DeBiase
Faculty Member & Podcast Host, Kellogg/Northwestern
Executive Chairman, Revieve
Dean DeBiase is a Silicon Valley Serial CEO, with a reputation for successfully rebooting companies and guiding them through expansion, turnaround, roll-up, spin-out, divestiture, MBO, SPAC, M&A, and IPO phases—in the metagaming, media, beauty, retail, ecommerce, services and technology sectors.
Recently named “Growth Guru” by Inc. Dean is a best-selling author and public speaker, Host of The Reboot Chronicles Podcast and Faculty Member at Kellogg School of Management, Forbes Contributor and Advisor at the NSF, and Executive Chairman of Revieve. As CEO of Reboot Partners, he invests in and co-operates emerging growth companies—and also enables startups and Fortune 1000’s to co-create through The Dancing with Startups Program.
Dean was recently Chairman of ÄKTA - acquired by Salesforce (CRM), CEO of Autoweb (AWEB) - taken public and acquired by Autobytel (ABTL), CEO of Imagination Network/WorldPlay Entertainment - acquired by Verizon, CEO of TNS Media - acquired by WPP, CEO of Entertainment.com - an MBO acquisition, CEO of Free Drive - acquired by Verizon, and CEO of CatchTV - acquired by Liberty Media (FWONA). Dean has also been an operating executive and CEO of Fortune 500 subsidiaries, including FedEx (FDX), AT&T (T), AOL (VZ), WPP (WPP.L), Western Union (WU), Anixter (AXE), Arris (ARRS) and LG Electronics (LGLD).
He has served on public, private, Family-Enterprise, CVC, PE and VC boards, and is currently a board member at Revieve, PBC Linear and Manna Tree. Previously he was a lead-director of Donlen Corporation acquired by Hertz.com (HTZ), Excelligence (LRNS) - taken public and sold to private equity, Amway Ventures, Centerpost - acquired by West.com (WSTC), and Akoo - acquired by RMG Networks (RMGN).
You can connect with Dean at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/followdean/
Chris Howarth
