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Clark Dean | |
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| Born | Clark Headrick Dean August 28, 1973 Birmingham, Alabama |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Occupations | Non-Profit Leader, Management Consultant, Real Estate Director |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Kristin Dean |
| Children | Clark "Will" Dean Jr., John Gregory "JG" Dean, Virginia Dean |
| Website | https://www.clarkdeanforga.com/ |
Clark Headrick Dean (born August 28, 1973) is an American businessman, non-profit leader, and political candidate. He founded the Transwestern Transaction Sciences Group, one of Atlanta’s largest real estate holders, and has served as the Chairman of the Metro Atlanta YMCA board, Shepard Center Board, and is the former President of the Rotary Club of Atlanta. Dean is a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2026 Georgia gubernatorial election.
Early Life
[edit]Clark Dean was born on August 28, 1973, in Birmingham, Alabama. His parents later moved to the Birmingham suburb of Mountain Brook. Dean attended public schools in Jefferson County, playing football for Mountain Brook High School, where he graduated validictorian. During high school he was an active Boy Scout, and earned the rank of Eagle Scout.[1] Afterwards Dean attended Harvard University, where he majored in Biomedical Engineering and played football as an Offensive Guard and Defensive End.[2] He gave the commencement address at his Harvard University class graduation.
Business Career
[edit]In 2013, Dean founded Transwestern’s Transaction Sciences Group, which operates across asset classes and focuses on developing innovative transaction structures to help scale businesses and nonprofits for domestic and foreign clients. He is also a member of Transwestern’s Board of Directors and serves on its National Tenant Representation and Workplace Solutions Steering Committee.
His business achievements have earned him recognition as one of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “40 Under 40” and one of Georgia Trend’s “500 Most Influential Leaders.”[1]
Non-Profit Career
[edit]Dean is the former Chairman of the Metro Atlanta YMCA, one of Georgia’s largest and oldest nonprofits. Clark successfully championed early childhood education and youth development initiatives.[3] He has stated a desire to replicate his focus on early childhood education if elected Governor.
Dean is the former President of the Rotary Club of Atlanta and its youngest ever President.[4] He led major initiatives supporting veterans and fighting human and sex trafficking before the issue gained statewide attention.
Dean also serves as Chairman of the Shepherd Center, where he championed expanding access to world-class rehabilitation and traumatic injury care for patients across Georgia.[5] Dean cites his experience with the Shepherd Center as proof that he understands Georgia’s healthcare challenges firsthand, especially those faced by Georgia’s rural communities.
At Covenant House Georgia, the state’s leading youth homeless charity, Clark helped lead the transformation of a small 15-bed shelter into a modern 60,000-square-foot campus that now serves thousands of homeless youth each year.[6] He attributes his work as the reason many of Atlanta’s vulnerable youths have a safe place to sleep, learn, and rebuild their lives.
Dean also serves on the boards of the Atlanta Opera, the Metro Atlanta Chamber, Café Momentum, and the Veritas School of Social Sciences.[4]
Georgia 2026 Gubernatorial Campaign
[edit]On September 23, 2025, Dean announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2026 Georgia gubernatorial election. Dean is challenging frontrunner Burt Jones, the Georgia Lieutenant Governor endorsed by Donald Trump, as well as Chris Carr, the Georgia Attorney General, and Brad Raffensburger, the Georgia Secretary of State. In his announcement video, Dean positioned himself as an outsider candidate whose success in the business and non-profit space makes him the best choice for Governor over the three institutional candidates.[7][8]
Dean has been described as a supporter of Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, and has praised Kemp’s record. On the campaign trail Dean expressed a desire to “keep Georgia the number one state for business,” but broadened his goals further, saying “Georgia should be number one in even more things: maternal mortality, affordability, education, etc.”[9]
Political Views
[edit]Affordability
[edit]Dean’s central campaign tenant is lowering costs for Georgia families by lowering food and groceries costs, bringing down the cost of housing, and reducing Georgians’ tax burden. To reduce food and grocery costs, Dean plans to invest in quality food processing in Georgia to create high-paying jobs, reduce transportation costs of food, and increase the local food supply. To reduce housing costs, Dean intends to eliminate excessive zoning regulations that make building new homes expensive and difficult, while promoting policies that make it easier and more affordable to build. He also aims to reduce taxes by utilizing effective private-sector models to optimize tax distribution.
Education
[edit]Dean aims to provide early education programs for children from birth to age four, ensuring strong cognitive and developmental foundations during these critical years. He’s also stated a desire to give parents greater autonomy in school choice, as well as to promote trade skills and small business ownership through high school and technical college apprenticeship programs.
Healthcare
[edit]Dean often addresses maternal mortality in interviews, and wants to sponsor bills enabling early detection of hypertension and other health risks for both mother and child. Dean also hopes to expand early detection of health issues through cost-effective technology and community health worker programs. Dean has expressed support for the creation of the new University of Georgia School of Medicine, and wants to further eliminate barriers that limit the supply of trained medical professionals. Dean also recognizes that roughly 50% of Georgians live outside of the metro Atlanta area and have aggregately worse health outcomes due to lower quality rural healthcare. He intends to implement innovative healthcare models to connect rural health systems with the specialists and resources they need.[9][10][11]
Personal Life
[edit]Dean currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and three children. He and his family attend the Second-Ponce De Leon Church in the Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Transwestern Biography of Clark Dean".
- ^ "1994 Harvard University Football Team".
- ^ "Clark Dean, Board Chair at YMCA of Metro Atlanta".
- ^ a b "Rotary Club Welcomes Clark Dean".
- ^ "Clark Dean Appointed to Shepherd Center Board of Directors".
- ^ "Clark Dean of Studley leads group to raise funds by staying outside overnight".
- ^ "Clark Dean enters Georgia governor's race as GOP 'outsider'".
- ^ "Georgia businessman Clark Dean enters an already full governor's race".
- ^ a b "Clark Dean makes case for 'outsider' leadership in Georgia governor's race".
- ^ a b "Clark Dean for Georgia".
- ^ "Ruwa Romman and Clark Dean announce campaigns for Georgia governor".