Dean Hering

Dean Hering is the Chief Innovator at OVO. After earning a BS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, Dean joined System Planning Corporation, working 21 hour days designing circuits with other crazy engineers like Bob Dougherty and Bob Dixon, the other two future owners of NetCentrics (both of whom still had hair). Dean then headed to Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a Masters in Electrical and Computer engineering. After graduating, Dean spent ten years at RTI International, where he helped commercialize NASA technology, designed biomedical device interfaces, and served as Director for the Center for Digital Systems Engineering, leading Virtual Reality projects for international clients Michelin, Volvo, IBM, KLM Airlines, Astec Industries and others.

Dean currently leads the innovation Team at OVO and spearheads the Innovate on Purpose Initiative, which applies leading innovation thought leadership to producing products and services, such as OVO Tools, Spark, Incubator, Launch, Meeting Studio, and the Getting Things Done Outlook Add-In. Outside the office, Dean is Mr. Science at his children's elementary school - running science demonstration assemblies, science fairs, lofting objects with helium, making hovercrafts, and the usual other stuff dads do. He builds zany inventions with his three kids, reads a lot of business books, teaches leadership skills, and pretty much does whatever his lovely wife Holly tells him to do. With a smile.