Revieve Names Dean DeBiase Chairman; Opens North American HQ

CHICAGO, Dec 13, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Revieve (revieve.com), a digital beauty company that enables retailers and brands to personalize consumer search, evaluation, and purchasing experiences, has named Dean DeBiase Chairman.

A Silicon Valley veteran, DeBiase has served as an operating executive of public corporations and CEO of Fortune 500 subsidiaries across a wide range of industries including FedEx, AT&T, AOL, WPP, Western Union, Anixter, Arris, and LG Electronics. In chief executive and chairman roles, DeBiase has led organizations through expansion, turnaround, roll-up, spin-out, divestiture, M&A, IPO, and exit phases, including Autoweb (acquired by Autobytel), The ImagiNation Network (acquired by Verizon), TNS Media (acquired by WPP), Entertainment.com (acquired by Afin Technologies), Free Drive (acquired by Verizon), and CatchTV (acquired by Liberty Media).

DeBiase serves on public, private, family enterprise, CVC, and private equity boards including 3DPlatform, PBC Linear and MannaPartners, and previously at ÄKTA (acquired by Salesforce), Donlen (acquired by Hertz), Excelligence Learning (acquired by Sterling Investment Partners), Centerpost (acquired by West Corporation), and Akoo (acquired by RMG Networks). He is a Board Leadership Fellow at the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), a faculty member at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisor, a Fortune.com contributor, a founding board member at 1871, and a best-selling author, media guest, and public speaker.

Additionally, Revieve has announced the opening of its North American Headquarters, co-located in the Chicago Connectory, an Internet of Things (IoT) co-creation space developed by Bosch and 1871.

The company evaluated multiple locations, including New York City and Silicon Valley, for its North American Headquarters and ultimately chose Chicago because of its reputation as a global tech-innovation hub with supportive community organizations, including World Business Chicago (worldbusinesschicago.com)and P33 (P33chicago.com).

"We're honored to have Dean DeBiase join us as our Chairman. Having worked with the Revieve founders at previous ventures, Dean is a growth guru who brings scale-up experience building global technology and services companies," said Revieve CEO Sampo Parkkinen.

"With digital beauty booming and consumers demanding more personalized product recommendations, our expansion is in direct response to the growing demand, for the Revieve selfie skin-diagnostic platform, by leading retail, e-commerce, digital, and beauty brands,"said DeBiase.

"With a dynamic network of startups, corporations, universities, private equity and civic organizations, Chicago provides valuable collaboration opportunities and a diverse talent pool that will help us deliver the best technology and support capabilities in the industry."

"The 1871 board is excited to see Dean, our long-standing impact-oriented board member, bring Revieve to Chicago, and we look forward to partnering with his team to help leverage all that the Chicago tech community has to offer," said 1871 CEO Betsy Ziegler.

"This is great news for Chicago. Dean is a highly respected tech leader in our region and we are excited to have Revieve join Chicago's rapidly expanding digital innovation ecosystem," said P33 CEO, Brad Hendersen.

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