Dean Church

Current

Consultant at Corridor Services, LLC

Past

CTO at Coast Asset Management LLC
MBA Instructor- E Business at University of Phoenix
Founder/President at Paridox Ventures, Inc.

Executive Vice President-Technical Operations at Interactive Telecom Network
Director Operations and Business Development at Unitrendix Corporation
Consultant at Sterling Solutions (Sole Proprietorship)
Artillery Officer at United States Marine Corps

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Education

Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
University of Southern California

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Dean Church’s Summary

I am a seasoned business professional with over fifteen years of international and domestic management experience. I am well versed and experienced in highly technical and complex business environments with P/L responsibility. In each environment I've performed I establish a successful track record in building and managing diverse teams of business professionals and technicians to include business analysts, risk managers, networking engineers, system administrators, programmers, business application specialists, accountants, legal vendors, and project managers to lower operating costs and bring profitable products to market.

Dean Church’s Specialties:

Hedge Fund and Fund of Funds operations, technical operations, and business application expertise. Continuous process and organizational improvement to increase revenues and the returns on investment in human and financial capital.

Dean Church’s Experience

Consultant

Corridor Services, LLC

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Investment Management industry)

July 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)

Hedge fund front and back office technical operations consulting.
CTO

Coast Asset Management LLC

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Investment Management industry)

July 2004 — March 2007 (2 years 9 months)

Responsible for building and managing diverse teams of business professionals and technologists to include business analysts, risk managers, networking engineers, system administrators, programmers, business application specialists, accountants, legal vendors, and project managers to lower operating costs and bring profitable products to market.
MBA Instructor- E Business

University of Phoenix

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; APOL; Higher Education industry)

September 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 5 months)
Founder/President

Paridox Ventures, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

January 2001 — June 2004 (3 years 6 months)

eBusiness operations and business development boutique consultancy. We specialized in developing supportable and sustainable technology infrastructures to monetize the opportunity that is the Web. Highlights included developing and deploying an integrated hosting, affiliate management, billing, and customer service platform for marketing firms.
Executive Vice President-Technical Operations

Interactive Telecom Network

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; NOOF; Online Media industry)

October 1998 — October 2001 (3 years 1 month)

I joined a privately held 3 year old start up as the first professional manager taking over operations from the co-founder. I re-architected, implemented, and managed the rapid growth of our production eCommerce data network; Growing it from $1.5M/mo in revenue to $8M/mo in revenue and from 56Mbps of capacity to 1Gbps capacity.

I conceived, launched, and managed an Internet search engine optimization (SEO) marketing service, HitWerks.com, that grew to $5M in annual revenue in 3 years. The development of this in-house marketing capability was a key element in the ability of the owners to reach their liquidity event by selling to a publicly- traded media company in October 1999.

Other projects of note are a global payment processing system. Scaled to handle $10m/month in transaction revenue,a 100Tb Media Asset Management system, and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) optimized for Video distribution.
Director Operations and Business Development

Unitrendix Corporation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 2 months)

I grew and managed a software/hardware distribution company with 500+ reseller members that resulted in $10M in annual revenue. Secured reseller/agent status with new technolgy products and services to move through my channel. A few of note were CheckPoint/iCat/Toshiba/Sharp/Cyber Cash/Exodus Communications at product introduction in US.

I launched specialty US-based Japanese-language ISP Ginga.net that has grown to several thousand monthly subscribers. We launched the first Japan-US international discount dial service with Tokyo Electric post Japanese local telecom deregulation in 1997. I am expert in extensive contract negotiation and contract management with Tier 1 and specialty networks (UUNet//GridNet/Cable & Wireless Plc./GTE/ATT/Bell Atlantic/PacBell/NTT/ TTNet/KDD/GlobalOne/IBMGlobal Network/GST Telecom/Hong Kong Telecom).
Consultant
Sterling Solutions (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

June 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 3 months)

In 1995 the WTO concluded their Uruguay Round and unrestricted meat imports into Japan were allowed for the first time. Working with a Japanese entrepreneur I built a pork meat procurement and export network that resulted in $25M annual shipments to Taiwan and Japan for SIG International.

In 1996-97 I worked with the Ho Family, the leading gem manufacturing family, in Bangkok to develop the strategic financing and development plan for Mekong Media Park, Bangkok Thailand.

As the Internet wave arrived in Los Angeles I reoriented my practice to new media strategy development and worked with many startup entrepreneurs and not-for-profit community projects. Two of the most meaningful engagements were the “LA Culture Net”, a community arts and internet initiative of the Getty Museum and designing a national low-income housing community learning center deployment and operations plan for BreakAway.org a South Central LA technology empowerment center.
Artillery Officer

United States Marine Corps

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

October 1988 — August 1997 (8 years 11 months)

Artillery Officer—Captain; Second-in-command of 50 Marines during Gulf War; Digital Communications Terminal trainer; Classified Materials Custodian; Top Secret clearance. Extensive logistics and motor transportation management experience. Collateral duties of Regimental Legal, Human Resources, and Equal Opportunity Officer.

Dean Church’s Education

Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina

MBA , International Business , June 1992 — May 1995

Japan market specialist. Resided in Tokyo for 16 months as part of program. Delphi Automotive Systems, Asia Pacific—Business Operations Intern. Managed Marketing Communications budget, $4.5m. Co-created Asia Pacific human resource staffing blueprint. Assisted Asia Pacific Strategy Planning Team. Planned and executed regional trade shows China, Japan, Korea, and Malaysia. Designed regional sales brochures/presentations/product literature. Allied-Signal Fellowship recipient. Co-founder, MIBS Student Association. Co-author, MIBS 2000 strategic business plan. Awarded Beta Gamma Sigma lifetime membership.
University of Southern California

BA , East Asian Studies and International Relations , August 1984 — May 1988

Vice-president, Entrepreneur Association. Assistant, Center for International Education. Captain, Varsity Rowing Team (Lightweight 4 w/coxswain). Certificate of Japanese Studies—Waseda University. Resided in Tokyo for 12 months.

Additional Information

Dean Church’s Groups:

IEEE, ISNAE, Beta Gamma Sigma, USC

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Hedge Fund Group (HFG)
Moore School of Business Graduate Alumni
Beta Gamma Sigma - The International Honor Society Recognizing Business Excellence
Risk, Regulation & Reporting
Financial Services Career Group - eFinancialCareers