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Throughout his 35-year career, Dean’s responsibilities have covered an expansive range of areas including organizational leadership, board relations, strategic finance, executive financial analyses and decision support, transaction support, financial reporting, and vendor relationship management.

Dean joined Vincentian Collaborative System (Vincentian) in February 2020 as its Chief Financial Officer. In November 2021, he was named its President and Chief Executive Officer. In his current role, Dean cultivates strong relationships with a collection of stakeholders, including customers, employees, family members, community members, board members, and corporate partners. Drawing from an adaptive leadership mindset, he is responsible for a distributed workforce of nearly 500 people working across numerous campuses. He demonstrates a comprehensive and practical understanding of current industry trends and challenges affecting human services organizations, and is active in strategic finance, new business development, and industry relations.

Prior to joining Vincentian, Dean held various senior finance leadership roles at UPMC. Those roles included serving as Chief Financial Officer of UPMC Information Services Division (ISD), a

$700 million business within UPMC’s diversified health care enterprise. Since assuming that role in February 2011, Dean worked closely with Executive Leadership on all strategic information technology matters to advance UPMC’s strategy of leveraging smart technologies to deliver quality patient care and population health management. In addition to his leadership role within ISD, beginning June 1, 2014, Dean also served as the Chief Financial Officer of UPMC Enterprises, a segment responsible for driving UPMC’s strategy for commercializing its expertise, bringing world-class health care, advanced technologies, and management skills to markets extending well beyond western Pennsylvania. While at UPMC, Dean was also responsible for the financial oversight of the functional activities comprising UPMC’s Supply Chain Management, Human Resources, and Security operations. Since September 2011, Dean co-led UPMC’s Financial Management Rotation program, which recruits, develops, and expands the breadth of finance personnel across UPMC’s diverse businesses.

Prior to joining UPMC in February 2011, Dean was an Audit Partner with Ernst & Young, primarily serving companies in the health care, insurance, and manufacturing industry located in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and eastern Ohio. During his 22-year career with Ernst & Young, Dean was a frequent instructor within its professional development programs and served five years as the Coordinating Partner for Campus Recruiting across Ernst & Young’s North Central region.