Dean Garfield was elected President & CEO of ITI in October 2008 by the Association's Board of Directors.

Dean comes to ITI after serving most recently as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategic Officer for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). While there, he was a member of the senior management team and was responsible for developing the association's global strategies, securing accomplishment of key operational objectives, and
forging industry alliances on behalf of the MPAA.

He was also in charge of MPAA’s Research and Technology Departments and represented the MPAA before legislative bodies and at key conferences around the world, including the European Commission and at Oxford University.

Before that, Dean was Vice President of Legal Affairs at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He helped develop the organization’s comprehensive intellectual property policy and litigation strategies and managed several of the country’s most important
intellectual property cases, including the Grokster/Kazaa case, from its filing to its resolution at the Supreme Court.

Dean has worked as an attorney in New York and Washington. He received a joint degree from New York University School of Law and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Administration and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was a Ford-Rockefeller as well as a Root-Tilden-Snow scholar.

He lives in Washington DC with his wife and two children.

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