Dean Hopkins is Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of Oxford Properties. Dean's a member of Oxford’s Executive Committee and is Chair of the Operations Committee. Dean’s background is pure Canadian tech: he founded and led an internet strategy company in Toronto in 1994, was responsible for much of the transformation effort of Thomson Reuters, and, prior to his role at Oxford, was CEO of OneEleven, Canada's largest scale-up innovation hub.

In this episode, Mark and Dean explore Dean's career in the technology sector, enterprise transformation during COVID (why enterprises need tech and how startups can sell to them), the future of real estate in a post-pandemic world, and Dean's thoughts on where the Canadian tech community is headed.