Dean Kakridas Email & Phone Number

Efficient like a machine. Resilient like a human. Welcome to the Machine. I’m here to help you grow your business and solve problems. My role is a mix of hunter, matchmaker, deal broker, curator, strategist, consultant, and trusted partner. I connect brands and services firms with the strategy, brand, design, product, and engineering capabilities they need in real-time and work to optimize outcomes for all involved. The Dean Machine (my high school nickname that stuck) epitomizes how I work and a belief that the value I deliver to all parties results from human connection and resilience combined with machine-like efficiency—a nod to the need for a human touch in the age of AI. >If you own or run a services business and could use some highly targeted outbound business development RESULTS, let's talk about how we can partner.> If you are a CEO, CPO, CDO, or product/tech/innovation leader tasked with building what's next, we can partner on all the key external strategic advisory, creative leadership, and extraordinary talent you'll need to achieve your goals on time and budget.

Östermalm, Stockholm County, Se

Eidra is a carefully selected collective of top-tier specialist consulting companies. Different in craft, but united in our ambition to solve complex problems and deliver lasting value.

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Evaluate and judge panel proposals and submissions for inclusion in SXSW.

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Ambush is a People Company taking a human-centered approach to identifying, retaining, and integrating highly-talented, long-term remote designers and engineers into America’s best product and development teams.

London, Gb

Neol is a Community-powered platform for top creative minds to do the best work of their lives. Our platform empowers deeply seasoned, strategic design and creative leaders with the people, processes and advanced technologies needed to deliver impactful business value and/or projects from anywhere at scale.Please contact me if you have a burning problem to solve or need strategic creative talent at any level. I'm here to help.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

We are a Creative Engineering services partner helping our clients create what's next (and after next). From strategy to execution, we incubate ideas, design, and build: apps, websites, systems, products, and robots/robot infrastructure. I'm accountable for our Texas market and capabilities including business development, product strategy, service & product design, hardware & software engineering, Fresh Labs, Fresh Ventures, building business partnerships across Fresh and our region, and creating new ways to serve our clients.

12 Global Locations, Worldwide, Oo

(formerly known as Cogniance) In my global role, I partnered closely with our CEO to develop long term company strategy and lead our global business development activities.

Portland, Or, Us

Part of Ziba’s leadership team reporting to the CEO and responsible for growing revenue and transforming business development, service offerings, and engagement model.

West Lake Hills, Texas, Us

IA is an Austin-based startup accelerator program focused solely on foreign-born founders that provides access to seed funding and the unique services you need to launch your startup in the United States. In my role I was responsible for the "0-1" business plan, building the team, and launching the program and first cohort.

After leaving frog I saw the opportunity to found nineten to be a modern creative business development "un-agency". The idea was to consult with big brands, identify and effectively frame their product or tech need and then find the best possible external talent to design or build it. The UVP was ensuring the right talent was working on the right problems at the right price. This brought great efficiency and velocity to the product consulting space. nineten had some great clients like Whole Foods Market, AB-InBev, and LG Electronics.

Outbox was a Peter Thiel backed startup founded by Evan Baehr and Will Davis. I advised Evan and Will at the earliest stages of the company's growth and helped with branding and product MVP ideation, design and development.

Key early contributor to this innovative startup that we spun out of frog design to bring to market the Reaction Housing System™ – the world’s first flexible, reusable, rapid-setup shelter system that addresses the housing gap present in the first 45 days of an emergency event where people are displaced from their homes. Responsibilities included fundraising, strategy, strategic alliances, and business development.

San Francisco, California, Us

At frog, I led business development and major accounts primarily in the mobile, retail, and lifestyle sectors and founded, led, and built strategic innovation engagements with global brands such as Nokia, Best Buy, T-Mobile, LG Electronics, and SK Telecom.

Oslo, No

I returned to Opera Software for a second tour in Austin on a consulting engagement to meet specific strategic business objectives in the US market around mobile and desktop browser distribution partnerships.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Sales and business development of Flash-based mobile solutions to Mobile Operators and MVNO's in the America's region. Worked closely with customers, partners and internal teams to customize solution and develop business model and contract to support it.My largest contribution was forming and leading a landmark Verizon relationship and selling in Flash-Lite technology that VZW used to build a differentiated mobile UX offering.I left Macromedia immediately after the Adobe acquisition.

Oslo, No

Third person hired on commercial side of the business and second American in company. Employee #22.-Business Development, Strategic Alliances, and Revenue responsibility for desktop and mobile browser products. Led a global team of 12 people.-Developed new browser licensing business, technology and distribution relationships, and global business partnerships.-Developed Opera's US office in Austin, TXLargest contribution was co-inventing and closing partnership with Google to introduce a first-ever built-in search capability within the browser UI/ chrome. This initiative forged Opera's main desktop and mobile browser revenue stream and underscored its reputation as the most innovative and capable web browser product. All browsers have since adopted search-thru-browser model and it's responsible for the vast majority of web browser revenue across the industry.

St Paul, Mn, Us

Responsible for the design and engineering of innovative electronic whiteboard products and accessories.**My last pure engineering job** Microtouch was acquired by 3MPrior I worked as an engineer in the computer industry at Sun Microsystems (workstations), NEC Technologies (personal computers), and Kendall Square Research (supercomputers).

Did Not Complete, Masters Business & Entrepreneurship

Bachelor Of Science Industrial Engineering And Information Systems, Industrial Engineering