John Dean's Email & Phone

Executive Chairman of the Board of Central Pacific Financial Corp. and Central Pacific Bank, John C. Dean is currently managing general partner of Startup Capital Ventures based in Palo Alto, California. Dean has spent 29 years as an executive in the financial services industry focusing the last 10 years on technology start-up companies. Dean also has strong ties to Hawaii, including serving as co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Entrepreneur's Foundation of Hawaii, supporting small business ventures, and endowing a faculty position at the University of Hawaii's Shilder College of Business. A graduate of Holy Cross College, a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Western Samoa and a graduate of the Wharton School with an MBA in Finance, Dean was recognized by Business Week as one of Silicon Valley's top 25 'movers and shakers' in 1997. In 2001, he was recognized by Forbes as one of the '50 most powerful dealmakers.' Dean is an advisor to the board of the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and founder and sponsor of Kipapa i ke Ala Lecture Series at the University of Hawaii's Shidler College of Business. He is also a director of the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business school of the University of Hawaii and a director of Pacific Health Research Institute. He also previously served as a Director of HiBEAM, a nonprofit organization that serves as an accelerator for startup companies in Hawaii, and is Chairman of the Emmett R. Quady Foundation, his family foundation.