Previously Dean was Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Emotive Communications, a company he co-founded in 2006. He first joined Emotive co-founders Anthony Stonefield and Shane Dewing as General Counsel at Moviso, where he authored the first licensing structures that brought music to mobile phones. Many of his licensing regimes continue to govern mobile media revenue models. With InfoSpace's acquisition of Moviso, Dean continued on with the team as Vice President of Business Affairs and Entertainment at InfoSpace Mobile, serving on its senior management team and managing the Entertainment Media group, where he was responsible for structuring and negotiating entertainment content, new media and technology-related transactions, as well as distribution agreements with carrier, handset manufacturer, retail and online portal partners. He is a music attorney by training, having worked at Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown in Beverly Hills, California where his practice included representing recording artists, music producers, writers, entertainment and new media companies in entertainment-related transactions. He began his career in corporate practice with Los Angeles-based firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Dean is a graduate of Harvard University, where he received both B.A. and J.D. degrees.