Areas of Expertise
  • Business transformation
  • Restructuring and turnaround
  • Integration
  • Growth strategy
  • M&A transaction support
Education
  • BCom- University of Toronto

Dean is the chair of Sapling’s Advisory Council, and a financial adviser to entrepreneurs and significant investors. Formerly, he was a Senior Tax Partner at PWC and he earned his Bachelor of Commerce at University of Toronto.

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  • The Power of Leading Indicators: Complementing Your KPIs for Forecasting
    • September 10, 2026
    • Joanna Chen

    Introduction Business intelligence presents an opportunity for managers and leadership to attain a holistic and consistent view of their company’s performance and health. Standardizing, automating, and processing data can offer valuable analytical opportunities and insights to management to understand their business’s operations and performance....

  • Sell-Side Quality of Earnings
    • August 26, 2026

    A B2B distributor selling to major retailers in the U.S. engaged Sapling to perform a sell-side Quality of Earnings review to support the planned sale of the business. The engagement focused on reconstructing and validating historical financial performance using transaction-level data, bank activity, inventory records,...

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