Doug Dean, CPA

Managing Principal

Doug joined Glenview Trust in July 2021 as a Managing Principal and in the following month was elected to its Board of Directors. He opened and has led the development of its Lexington office, Glenview Trust’s first office outside of Louisville. Prior to joining Glenview Trust, Doug worked for 50 years in public accounting firms, the first eight years with an international firm and the next 42 years with Dean Dorton Allen Ford, PLLC, a multi-office firm he founded. During his career as a practicing CPA he mainly provided tax, estate, and succession planning, merger and acquisition, and valuation services to businesses and high net-worth individuals.

Doug grew-up and completed high school in Carrollton, KY. He graduated with High Honors from Duke University with a BA in Management Sciences.

Doug has been actively involved in leadership roles in a number of community organizations. He currently serves in board leadership roles with the Lexington Opera House Fund, the Triangle Foundation, and Worldwide Hearts and Hands (“WHH”). Doug and his wife Brenda were leaders in organizing WHH, and Doug serves as its Board Chair and President. WHH operates several programs in Kenya mainly focused on vulnerable children’s education and sponsoring lunch programs at four rural primary schools which serve about 1,400 students each school day. Doug also serves on the boards of several private foundations.

Doug was named a Business Hall of Fame Laureate by Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass in 2018, and in 2020 he was honored to receive Commerce Lexington’s William T. Young Lifetime Achievement Award.
 

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