Dean De Biase

Dean DeBiase is an expansion phase CEO and Silicon Valley veteran with a track record scaling emerging growth companies, turning around organizations and embedding entrepreneurial-grade talent into multi-national corporation—to drive innovative growth. He has led public and private corporations through expansion, turnaround, roll-up, spin-out, M&A and IPO phases in Chairman, CEO and lead director roles.

He has been chief executive of a dozen private and public corporations and Fortune 500 subsidiaries including: Entertainment Promotions, restructure and sold to a founder group; TNS Media, a roll-up of media analytics and big-data insights companies acquired by WPP; Autoweb, which he built into the most popular digital auto brand and syndicated content/advertising network, took public and merged with Autobytel to create the largest Internet automotive marketing services company; and The Imagination Network, a social games company ranked the top entertainment destination by comScore, which he sold to AOL.

Dean is Chairman of Reboot Partners, a growth acceleration and interim management group, Boardroom Innovation, enabling the next-generation of digitally savvy corporate boards and helping multi-national executives drive impactful strategy, innovation and growth partnership programs, and Startup Partners, which helps emerging growth companies disrupt, scale and grow faster.

He is a Senior KIN Fellow and Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Kellogg School of Management, a Board Leadership Fellow at the National Association of Corporate Directors and serves in board advisor, independent director and board Chairman roles, supporting civic, non-profit, government, family, foundation, private and public companies.

Dean is a lecture, author, frequent media guest, sought after speaker and a professional member of the National Speakers Association and Global Speakers Federation. He is the co-founder of the popular innovation crowd-sourced site, Innovation Excellence and a co-author of the best-selling book The Big Moo with Seth Godin and Malcolm Gladwell.

Videos

Dean DeBiase on KIN
Farmhouse's Paul Earle interviews Dean DeBiase and Sonny Garg on Leo Burnett's Podcast
BRAVEntrepreneurs: Dean Debiase at TEDxUNPlaza Education BS, Marketing, Northern Illinois University

MBA, Keller Graduate School of Management

Other Professional Experience -Current Positions, 2001-2001

Chairman & CEO, Reboot Partners

Executive Chairman, AKTA

Chairman and Board Member, ADMCi

Chairman and Board Member, Donor Path

Chairman, Innovation Excellence

Chairman, Startup Partners

Chairman, Boardroom Innovation

Board Leadership Fellow, NACD

Senior Fellow, Kellog Innovation Network

, 2015-2015

-Current Boards & Advisory Boards, 2001-2001

1871

TechNet

TEDxMidwest

NIU Foundation

Innovation Excellence

Security Innovation Network

, 2015-2015

-Previous Roles, 2001-2001

CEO, TNS Media

Chairman & CEO, Entertainment Promotions

Chairman & CEO, Fathom Online

Chairman & CEO, Free Drive

Chairman & CEO, Autoweb

CEO, CatchTV

CEO, AOL-WorldPlay Entertainment

CEO, AT&T-The Imagination Network

CMO & President Network Systems, Zenith/LG

CMO & Entrepreneur-in Residence, Arris/Anixter

President, Anixter International

President, Optical Networks International

Managing Director, FedEx

, 2015-2015

-Previous Boards & Advisory Boards, 2001-2001

Amway

Akoo/RMG Networks

Donlen/Hertz Corporation

CenterPost/West Corporation

Keller Graduate School of Management

CatchTV/Liberty Media

Excelligence Learning Corporation

Education Other Professional Experience