Closing Keynote

The Industry Keynote will feature Christopher Dean, Chief Strategy Officer of Skype, on the subject of "Service Provider Transformation."

Christopher Dean, Skype's Chief Strategy Officer, has 20 years of experience in business and corporate development, strategy consulting and advising startups. He specializes in deals to grow revenue, create new distribution channels and develop and launch new products.

Dean has led several business development and strategy teams that have defined and prioritized strategic partner targets and identified, negotiated and closed partnerships. He was most recently the co-founder of Texada Capital and responsible for new business development. Earlier, he spent four years as the senior vice president of marketing and business development at Face Time communications, a leading vendor of security, management and control solutions for enterprise-oriented instant messaging.

Dean also was an executive in business development at Epoch Partners, SmartAge.com, Worlds, Inc. and a consultant at Regis McKenna, Inc. He has consulted with Apple, Adobe Systems, IBM, Oracle and Placeware, prior to its sale to Microsoft.

He has a bachelor's degree in economics from Vassar College and a master's degree in business administration from Kellogg Graduate School of Management.