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Dean Howes is a former partner in SCP Worldwide, a New York City-based sports, entertainment and media company founded in 2002. Howes and SCP Worldwide were the managing partners in the National Hockey League’s (NHL) St. Louis Blues and the newly renamed Scottrade Center. SCP also owned the Real Salt Lake soccer franchise, a member of Major League Soccer (MLS) playing in Salt Lake City, Utah, and also Rio Tinto Stadium, home of Real Salt Lake. Howes served as the vice-chairman and oversaw the construction of Rio Tinto soccer-specific stadium with related entertainment elements in Sandy, Utah.
Howes played a role in making Real Salt Lake the first U.S. professional sports team to sell the naming rights to the front of their jerseys. This has sparked a trend throughout the MLS, in which now all teams have followed suit with front jersey sponsors.
In November 2014, Howes partnered with Findlay Entertainment about their bid to bring the first major league sports franchise to the Las Vegas market.
Dean began his career with Bristol-Myers Squibb spending 19 years in key executive positions in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. As Senior Director of Business Development, he was responsible for 160 million dollars in annual sales in addition to managing a staff of National Account Managers and Business Development Managers.
In 1997, he became CEO, president, and Founding Executive of Professional Teams Physicians, a company that aggregated physicians representing professional teams in the NBA, MLB, NFL, MLS and NHL. The company grew to represent over 1,100 sports medicine physicians responsible for creating and supporting sports care products as well as providing technology tools for hospitals and physicians across the country.
During his 37 years of marketing, sales, and business development experience, Howes has earned numerous professional awards for his outstanding achievement and business accomplishments. Dean has served in many voluntary leadership positions. In his spare time, he enjoys family, friends, and a wide variety of sports interests.
From July 2010 to July 2013, Howes served as a mission president in the Arizona Tempe Mission of the LDS Church, an ecclesiastical leader of about 200 LDS missionaries in central Arizona.