DRINKS names Justin Dean as Chief Technology Officer
DRINKS, an operating system for alcohol e-commerce, has appointed Justin Dean as Chief Technology Officer.
Dean brings to DRINKS nearly three decades of e-commerce-, marketplace- and SaaS-centric development and leadership experience.
“Alcohol e-commerce is the fastest growing segment of the $285bn US alcohol industry, which DRINKS continues to transform by enabling any business to be in the alcohol business,” says the company. “As CTO, Dean will accelerate the optimization, development and adoption of DRINKS technology, including the DRINKS Shopify App, WaaS, and its proprietary AI-suite, PAIR (Predictive Artificial Intelligence Retailing).”
After serving in the US Marine Corps as a network systems engineer, Dean scaled the ranks of major technology companies. He served as SVP, Technology and Head of Platform Engineering for Ticketmaster during a period of exponential growth throughout the 2010s. Most recently, as CTO and CIO of pioneering cannabis tech company WM Technology (Weedmaps), Dean led the platform's transition to a SaaS-enabled, multi-sided marketplace directly leading to a successful Nasdaq IPO.
Dean succeeds DRINKS' retiring CTO, Peter Wolfert, who shepherded the company's technology development since 2018.