Dean S. Tripodes is CEO and founder of Baywalk Marketing and Baywalk Web Development. Since 1999, he has helped small businesses and non-profit organizations. By focusing on the small business, working at Los Angeles' County's Business Technology Center (a local incubator for new businesses), Dean has first hand experience with many varied startup organizations. He helps his customers with marketing by focusing on defining the target customers of small businesses and non-profits. He then works to assist them to define their product or service, their promotion, and distribution with special emphasis on the online segment.

Dean currently teaches Marketing, Management (Problem Based Learning), Communications, E-Business, and Web Design classes at twelve different University of Phoenix southern California campuses. In the past, he has taught at Pasadena City College, Marymount College, and the University of California at Irvine.

Previous professional experience include four years of running a 2000 computer, 10 person help desk for Beckman Research Institute. He has extensive experience in management, technology, e-business, and consulting. Dean received his MBA degree from Claremont Graduate University and his bachelors degree in computer science from the University of Southern California.

Dean is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society for Business Programs and in 1998 he won the Henry R. Kravis Entrepreneurship Award from Claremont Graduate University. Dean is a member the Altadena Chamber of Commerce, and he is a member of AHEPA, a Greek-American non-profit organization that promotes education and philanthropy.