Roman Makovitskiy
Mark Davies
Dean DeBaise
Dean DeBiase
Faculty Member & Podcast Host, Kellogg/Northwestern
Executive Chairman, Revieve
Dean DeBiase is a Silicon Valley Serial CEO, with a reputation for successfully rebooting companies and guiding them through expansion, turnaround, roll-up, spin-out, divestiture, MBO, SPAC, M&A, and IPO phases—in the metagaming, media, beauty, retail, ecommerce, services and technology sectors.
Recently named “Growth Guru” by Inc. Dean is a best-selling author and public speaker, Host of The Reboot Chronicles Podcast and Faculty Member at Kellogg School of Management, Forbes Contributor and Advisor at the NSF, and Executive Chairman of Revieve. As CEO of Reboot Partners, he invests in and co-operates emerging growth companies—and also enables startups and Fortune 1000’s to co-create through The Dancing with Startups Program.
Dean was recently Chairman of ÄKTA - acquired by Salesforce (CRM), CEO of Autoweb (AWEB) - taken public and acquired by Autobytel (ABTL), CEO of Imagination Network/WorldPlay Entertainment - acquired by Verizon, CEO of TNS Media - acquired by WPP, CEO of Entertainment.com - an MBO acquisition, CEO of Free Drive - acquired by Verizon, and CEO of CatchTV - acquired by Liberty Media (FWONA). Dean has also been an operating executive and CEO of Fortune 500 subsidiaries, including FedEx (FDX), AT&T (T), AOL (VZ), WPP (WPP.L), Western Union (WU), Anixter (AXE), Arris (ARRS) and LG Electronics (LGLD).
He has served on public, private, Family-Enterprise, CVC, PE and VC boards, and is currently a board member at Revieve, PBC Linear and Manna Tree. Previously he was a lead-director of Donlen Corporation acquired by Hertz.com (HTZ), Excelligence (LRNS) - taken public and sold to private equity, Amway Ventures, Centerpost - acquired by West.com (WSTC), and Akoo - acquired by RMG Networks (RMGN).
You can connect with Dean at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/followdean/
Chris Howarth
Lisa Williams
Marcelo Lu
Marcelo Lu serves as Senior Vice President, Care Chemicals North America at BASF Corporation. He assumed this role in January 2021, overseeing eight manufacturing sites, four laboratories, and a team of over 650 people that serve our customers. In this role, Marcelo leads the strategic and operational performance of the Care Chemicals business that serves customers in the Home Care, Personal Care, Agrochemical Additives and Industrial markets. Key responsibilities include customer relationships, operational excellence and innovation and collaborating with teams globally to meet the needs of the North American market. Marcelo joined BASF in 2006 and has held various commercial and general management positions in Germany, Hong Kong, Canada and the U.S. Marcelo then held regional business management positions in Asia in the textile, packaging and automotive markets. Prior to BASF, Marcelo held several consulting positions at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank. He is a Steering Committee member for Commercial and Sales PDP Program and the P&G NA Customer Network Executive Sponsor. Before joining Care Chemicals North America, Marcelo served as Managing Director of BASF Canada. In this role, he put a spotlight on BASF as a sustainability leader in Canada, through driving thought leadership, promoting a circular economy and advocating innovation, digitalization and smart regulation for sustainable solutions in Canadian business. Marcelo holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) and executive education from INSEAD. Marcelo is passionate about archery, swimming, spinning and traveling. In his free time, he enjoys the company of his daughter and son and is trying to be a fun dad