Dean De Biase
About Dean De Biase
Named “Growth Guru” by Inc., Dean DeBiase is an award-winning serial CEO who has helped lead dozens of public and private organizations that have reshaped industries. Managing companies through diverse operating environments—from expansion, M&A, MBO and IPO to turnaround, roll-up spin-out, takeover and divestiture—his ventures have created hundreds of products, thousands of jobs, and billions of dollars of revenue, value, and capital. Dean started Reboot Partners to bring his entrepreneurial-growth expertise to leaders of large enterprises and startups—with roadmaps that help them partner together to rethink innovation, competitiveness, and results. A trusted advisor to CEO’s, boards and investors, he helps them increase value, by tackling their most challenging issues, seizing emerging market opportunities, and advancing talent and new venture growth. As an Operating Partner, CEO and Executive Chairman, Dean has an inclusive engagement-culture leadership style that attracts, builds, and inspires multi-generational/multi-national teams to be first-to-market leaders. They have been recognized for rapidly scaling organizations and producing industry-shaping products, services, and brands across sectors—including AI, advertising, cars, cloud, dating, games, messaging, Metaverse, music, 3D printing, search, social media, technology, telecom, talent, retail, SaaS, software, TV, and Web3—that transformed industries, economies, and societies. A WSJ Best-Selling Author, Dean is a Keynote Speaker, Forbes Contributor, professor, frequent media guest and the Host of The Reboot Chronicles, a popular CEO podcast that has interviewed hundreds of leaders—unpacking their untold stories to help audiences reboot their organizations and themselves. He is a co-author of the best-selling book The Big Moo with Seth Godin—and as a top expert on the power of global growth partnerships, his next book, Dancing with Startups, will prepare leaders for the revolutionary decade ahead.