Summary
Dean Young is a product leader with a decade of experience building hardware-software products at the intersection of IoT, facilities, and IT, currently shaping Cisco Spaces’ Smart Workspaces roadmap. Previously as Head of Product at Awair he led launches that scaled to 100,000+ devices and generated billions of daily data points, marrying embedded firmware, cloud services, and consumer apps. He’s shipped high-visibility mobile and hardware launches (including an app with 1M+ downloads), owned GTM and growth systems like Marketo/Salesforce, and mentors early-stage talent through programs like PreHack and Stanford. Trained in Environmental Economics at Stanford, he brings a rare mix of environmental domain knowledge and product execution that informs pragmatic, data-driven decisions for smarter buildings.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Saint James Boarding School
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Economics at Stanford University