In this episode, YS Chi speaks to Dean Curtis about his unconventional professional journey which has seen him skip university, start a career in finance, move into professional soccer coaching at major UK clubs including Tottenham Hotspur, and then onto risk and compliance.

Today, he’s leading two growing businesses that provide data and analytics. YS asks Dean about how these different paths have served each other and how his insights into sports, elite team performance and psychological safety informs his business decisions and leadership skills. Together, they discuss “co-opetiton”, the combination of competition and collaboration in the age of Covid, insights into how analytics are helping the airline, travel and petrochemical industries make better decisions, and our responsibility to support their transition towards environmental sustainability. 

Dean Curtis is group managing director of ICIS and Cirium which respectively provide data and analytics solutions to the petrochemical, and airline and travel industries.

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