Jered Dean

Jered Dean is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at LUCI, where he brings his decade-long experience in new product development to life. Jered founded the company in 2017 with his brother, Barry, in hopes of creating a technology that could improve life in a power wheelchair for his niece, Katherine. As CTO, he heads all product development and innovation, overseeing a team of more than 15 engineers in Denver, Colo. During his time at Syncroness, where he worked in product development, Jered was responsible for the planning and execution of a number of projects from complex weapon systems to medical devices. His experience and expertise include control systems design and engineering, IP creation, project management for new product development, design of molded components, and dynamic mechanism design and simulation. He is the former Director of the award-winning Capstone Design@Mines program at the Colorado School of Mines, where he taught students engineering through project-based learning.