C. Dean Metropoulos is Chairman and CEO of Metropoulos & Company, a boutique acquisition and management firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Greenwich, Connecticut. Mr. Metropoulos has spent the past 25 years building, restructuring and growing numerous businesses in the U.S. and Europe. Many of these were subsequently taken public or sold to strategic corporations. He is very well known in the private equity, investment banking, and financial community.

The returns generated by Metropoulos & Company are among the highest and most consistent among private equity investors having generated an average of 44% returns, with the lowest being 23%. Dean has been married to Marianne Metropoulos for 35 years and they have two sons, Evan and Daren who reside in California.