Dean is a CEO that grows his businesses and those , who he helps by teaching empowerment and the skills of working on the business, not in the business. His diversity of business experiences has allowed him to come to a conclusion that ” All businesses are the same”. His proclaimed best attribute in business is ” I think like a child”, meaning he has very few filters and eliminates the self talk that hurts so many business leaders. He is a master at uncovering the obvious, 99% of all is recommendations or strategies come directly from the ones that don’t have one, ie: he gets them to take their filters off.
Experience
CEO
- Company Name: Adjunct CEO
- Dates Employed Jan 1992 – Present
- Employment Duration 26 yrs 5 mos
- Adjunct CEO is a company that has been around for 25 years that is designed to provide a CEO support, information and coaching to make their position more effective. The Adjunct CEO team can also provide temporary CEO functions for companies that may be going through a transition.
Head Coach and Founder of The Condo Coaches
Nov 2016 – Present
We are a group of HOA/Condo Association Vendors that offer our volunteer time to help Boards of Directors and Property Owners with advice, ideas, and unbiased help. We have a weekly underwritten radio show that we syndicate across the State of Florida and streamed on I tunes, Stitcher, You Tube. We have helped people in over 48 states.
Chief Operating Officer of LM Funding, LLC
May 2016 – Feb 2018
Adjunct CEO of Nexxtworks Inc.
June 2015 – Dec 2015
Adjunct CEO of HemWell America
Dec 2013 – June 2015
HemWell America is a company that is setting Medical Practices up with a Revolutionary Medical Device ” Ultroid” to cure one of the largest unserved chronic health problems in the USA, Hemorrhoids. No one talks about them but based on the estimated number of unserved people that “suffer in silence” the industry is a 10 billion+ market. The HemWell Affiliates will have the benefit of learning how to help the suffering and increasing practice revenue. As CEO it’s my mission to drive the awareness of this issue and create a national brand to service this large Patient Base.
Education
University of Florida
- Degree Name: Bachelor of Science
- Field Of Study: Advertising
- GradeReal Good, Graduated…..
- Dates attended or expected graduation 1970 – 1974
- Activities and Societies: Was President of Beta Theta Pi, Social Chairman Beta Theta Pi, A member of the Inter Fraternity Council Presidents Group.
Lakeland High School
- Degree Name: High School Diploma
- Dates attended or expected graduation: 1968 – 1970
- Activities and Societies: Jr Lions
Volunteer Experience
President
- Company Name: Davis Island Civic Association
- Was President and worked with Various other groups on the Island to create consensus of all the various groups to establish priorities for future iniiatives. The most notable were the Lineal Park at the South End of the Island and the setting up of a committee to save the Community Pool.
Board of Fellows
- Company Name: The University of Tampa
- Dates volunteered: Jan 2013 – Present
Volunteer duration 5 yrs 5 mos
- Sykes Business School Advisory Board
- Company Name The University of Tampa
- Dates volunteered Jan 2016 – Present
- Volunteer duration 2 yrs 5 mos
Past Chairperson
- Company Name Ceo Council Of Tampa Bay Inc
- Dates volunteered Jan 1997 – Present
- Volunteer duration 21 yrs 5 mos
- CauseEducation
Dean has mastered the art form of seizing opportunities in any situation. As a University of Florida graduate he joined a company in Lakeland Florida as a warehouse runner. By the age of 28 he was made the COO/Vice President of Sales. It was during the recession of the 80’s. Under the philosophies he will share with us today he was able to take this organization from 50 million in sales to 103 million 2 years later. This was done with the same 300 folks that did 50 million.
At 30 he wanted his own business so he bought a chain of tire stores. This became a fix it program. He grew it from a financially broke company to the leading commercial tire company in the state of Florida. He sold it to Don Olson tire and retired at age 40.
After about 2 months of this wonderful retirement, Dean’s wife came into his home study and said, “ I married you for better or worse, not for lunch. You need to go do something”. After getting calls from business owners he started the Adjunct CEO. So now 25 years later he still is helping people and companies.
His Adjunct CEO program led him to take over 2 construction companies that had over 150 million dollars is overdue / underperforming work across the state of Florida. This led him to start Akers Construction. He grew that in the 90’s slowdown from startup to 36 million in sales over 4 years and sold it to a larger company and went back into retirement again.
In 2005 he was approached by the founders of Ideal Image to help them as their Adjunct CEO with strategy. He did and became a stockholder and the full time CEO. He grew the company from a single location in south Tampa to 65 locations across the United States doing 70 plus million in sales. The company had a successful exit for 175 million dollars in 2011.
Having left Ideal Image he is now speaking and helping companies across the US seize their opportunities. Some of his recent companies he has helped are, Airheads Trampoline Centers, Sims Crane Service, Nexxtworks IT Company, LM Funding and Lifestyle Lift. The opportunities he will be sharing with us today are proven and he welcomes this chance to share them.