Dean Miles, Director of Product and Business Management, Amazon Smart Vehicles, leads all Product Management and Business Strategy, including Marketing. Working with automotive OEM, Tier1 suppliers, Partnerships, and Aftermarket segments to bring Amazons software products and services to customers. The ASV team’s mission is to create transformative products and services, enabling automakers to deliver personalized, proactive, and intuitive digital experiences that delight drivers and passengers.

Senior Vice President Automotive Sales within Harman’s Connected Services division. Leads a global team, including Solution Architects, Marketing and Sales. Delivering +330Mil yearly bookings in services, SW products and managed cloud solutions. Dean brings over 20 years of experience in the automotive industry to his leadership responsibilities for this fast-growing global business.

Leading Symphony Telea’s global Automotive Business Unit, owning the complete P&L for all automotive accounts. Responsible for 1500-person team delivering all functions across the BU, including Engineering, Strategy, Planning, Product Development, Delivery, Quality and Business Development. Delivering Innovative solutions and services to global customer base including OEM’s, Tier suppliers and SW ISV’s. Grown Automotive BU revenue by 300% in 2 years.

The Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is a non-profit industry association whose mission is to drive the broad adoption of an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) open source development platform. One of the founding members if the Steering Committee the Linux Foundation's initiatives for embedded solutions working with the community and companies to provide environments and platforms for embedded Linux systems.

Business Leader for Responsible for Driver Information Products. Accountable for operating income, development, cost, quality, and product strategy, throughout the entire product life cycle. Delivering applications to customers globally.

As director of electronics engineering for Visteon China, Dean Miles is responsible for leading electronics product development for Visteon and Yanfeng Visteon Automotive Electronics Systems, including audio & infotainment, driver information, and center stack electronics. He also takes on accountability for engineering sales and customer support for all China customers and product lines. The China electronics team also provides engineering services for Visteon globally.

Product Segment Leader for Responsible for Audio and Navigation products in Asia Region. Accountable for operating income, cost, quality, and product strategy, throughout the entire product life cycle. Delivering platforms and applications to customers globally.

• Global responsibility for product planning of commodity audio products.• Developing feature roadmaps to meet current and future market demands. • Build feature based cost models to assist customer groups based upon market research.• Work with product development teams to engineer suitable platforms to deliver customer demands.• Develop affordable cost model for complete business structure and work with teams to deliver targets.

• Responsible for PD department, engineering an audio product for Sony.• Managing a team of 30 engineers through a CMMi complaint project including specialists in Software, Mechanical, Product Assurance, Electrical, and Requirements Capture in UK, France & India. • Managing the overall project budget of €8.3Mil and delivering the bill of material target cost. • Responsible to deliver the product to the customer meeting Functional, Timing and Cost targets.

• Responsible for cost management of $500Mil buy across Europe and South America. • Responsible for target setting and delivery of cost performance with Visteon’s top suppliers across all commodities. • Lead a cross-functional team initiative to drive the generation and implementation of design cost reduction ideas. • Developing tools and expertise to become the centre of excellence for all cost management, including: Lean, VA/VE & Benchmarking. • Working directly with Finance to develop tools metrics to drive behaviour across purchase negotiation, manufacturing, PD & suppliers to ensure targets are met.

Ford Motor Company, Essex.• Audio Systems, Component Engineer. Responsible for the design and implementation of mechanical components.• Key role leasing with internal plants in Brazil, Mexico and Portugal throughout the design, launch and production phases ensuring ease of manufacture, quality and safe launch. • Pro-active role interacting with customer plants improving system quality and ensuring customer requirements are met. Became QS9000 Auditor and trained to use Pro/Engineer.• Foreign Service to Detroit to design navigation systems.