Dean Newton is Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Transact Campus Inc., based in Nashville, Tennessee. Transact is a Fintech leader, providing payment solutions to Higher Ed institutions. Dean also serves as a General Partner at Relevance Ventures. Previously, Dean was Chief Operating Officer of Emotive Communications, a company he co-founded in 2006 to enable the peer-to-peer distribution of media through mobile devices. Dean also served as General Counsel at Moviso, the first and largest mobile media and ringtone company in North America, where he authored the first licensing structures that brought music to mobile phones. He is a music and technology attorney by training, having worked at Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Dean is a graduate of Harvard University, where he received both B.A. and J.D. degrees. Dean is a member of the Patawomeck Indian Tribe, and serves on the Boards of a number of companies and organizations.
