Dean has 20 years of marketing, leadership, and communications technology expertise in a variety of industry roles. For the last 12 years, Dean has been with MTS Communications Inc. in a variety of positions, most recently as Director of Marketing and Strategy Development, Allstream Small Business where his role was strategy development and implementation, take-to-market, channel management, product development and management, and analysis and reporting related to small business engagement with MTS Allstream. Dean has also held managerial positions with MTS in Unified Communications and Voice Applications Product Management, Enhanced Local Features, and Messaging and Gateway, Enhanced Local, and Single Line Terminals. Dean's background includes strategic business planning/tactics for small and medium-sized enterprise as principal of a consulting company, and six years with National Leasing Group in sales and marketing capacities. Dean has an M.B.A. and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Manitoba.