Kristin Dean’s career has focused on building HR functions for newer organizations undergoing significant growth, including metro-area tech firms Code42 and Delaget. Since joining Eden Prairie-based Arctic Wolf in 2019, she has led a transformation of this billion-dollar cybersecurity firm and more than doubled its employee headcount year over year; it now tops 800. Dean created a comprehensive onboarding program for new hires, which typically total 30 to 40 employees joining every two weeks. She leads Arctic Wolf’s DEI initiatives and helped oversee relocation of the company’s headquarters from Silicon Valley to Minnesota in 2020.