John Dean

Managing Director

John is a managing director with Oaklins TM Capital, one of Oaklins’ US member firms. He is responsible for transaction execution across a broad range of industries, including all aspects of the deal process. John has more than 14 years of finance and transaction-related experience and is a member of Oaklins TM Capital’s healthcare team. Notable clients include UltiMed, VIP Petcare, WD Lab Grown Diamonds and Walpole Outdoors.

Prior to joining the firm, John was an associate at Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm with more than US$12 billion of equity capital under management. While at Roark, John served on the post-acquisition management teams of a number of Roark’s portfolio companies and evaluated new opportunities, primarily in multi-unit consumer and specialty retail, business services, industrial and environmental services companies. Prior to Roark, John was an analyst at Duff & Phelps, where he provided valuation advisory services to a range of public and private companies. John is a graduate of Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business and has a Bachelor of Science in Management.