Ben Dean is leading Jajah’s engineering team in Silicon Valley.
Prior to Jajah, Ben Dean co-founded Jangl after more than a decade of designing and building creative technologies designed for consumers.
At MusiKube, Dean helped architect, build, and deploy 411-Song, designing the infrastructure and working with partners to launch and integrate the 411-Song solution on U.S. wireless carriers. Also at MusiKube, Ben helped architect and build the 411-Tone service, one of the first voice-enabled ringtone search and ordering services.
At Referral Networks, Ben developed an employee referral solution to help Fortune 500 companies find qualified candidates via their employees’ social networks and, while a consultant at GlobalWorks, designed and built an XML-based content management solution that helps clients manage their consumer-facing web content in any language and any region.
Earlier in his career, Ben was an early executive at BuyerWeb, leading the development and management of the reverse-auction service and, before that, designed consumer electronics hardware and software applications used by Denon Electronics’ worldwide customer base.
Ben holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Audio Engineering from the University of Miami in Florida.
