Compugen
As the Vice President of Information Technology, Dean Reid oversees Compugen’s assets and infrastructure, telecommunications and business systems. This includes management of the company’s datacentre, networking environment, security, and all enterprise business applications.
Dean started his career as a programmer, using punch cards at his rural Manitoba high school, and has seen how the IT industry has evolved from 30-pound Compaq portable computers and 5 ¼ inch floppy disks, to tablets and cloud computing.
He joined Compugen in 1989 and in his early years with the company, he was an applications developer and a business analyst, responsible for mapping business needs to IT solutions. He was then promoted to IT Director and building on that experience, he joined the leadership team as Vice President of IT in 2012.
Dean holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Brandon University. Outside of the office, Dean enjoys snowboarding and playing golf. His favourite ice cream flavour is rum raisin.