Gavin Alexander Dein is a British entrepreneur and philanthropist, best known for his founding of the Reward Insight business, named the 5th fastest growing UK technology business in June 2024 according to ''

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-listed data analytics company, purchased a strategic minority stake in Reward Insight in a deal worth over £100m In May 2024

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, a FTSE50 company and the world's leading global information services company, acquired a strategic stake in the company and Dein became Founder and Deputy Chairman.

Early life

Gavin Dein is the son of

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MBE and Barbara Dein.

is best known for co-owning

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Football Club and founding the

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Dein has an older brother Darren, who is a football agent operating in Europe, and a younger sister Sasha. Dein attended

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and graduated with honours in entrepreneurship at

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in Boston Massachusetts, the No. 1 MBA programme for entrepreneurship according to the U.S. News & World Report.

Business

Dein founded Reward in 2001. In 2006 Dein invented a new technology to track and reward programme member shopping without the need for a loyalty card called Cardless Reward Technology (CRT). The technology links consumers' credit and debit cards to offers and deals, so while making their purchases customers can receive rewards such as discounts or free gifts without showing coupons or a separate loyalty card. In 2007 the innovation was nominated for the Best Industry Innovation of the Year at that years Credit Card Awards, and in 2008 Dein was accorded the Young Gun award by ''Growing Business'' for his invention. In addition to this programme, Reward also administers and runs the

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football credit card. Then in 2012 Reward launched the

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CashbackPlus rewards programme, which provides personalised rewards for NatWest debit card holders. In 2014 CashbackPlus won Best Card Benefits Programme of the Year. Much of the Reward's success can be attributed to partnering with leading financial organizations like

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, Mastercard, and

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, as well as prominent banks in Europe including

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, CEMEA (Central Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) with

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, the largest bank in the UAE, and the Asia Pacific region. Reward launched full-service loyalty programmes in partnership with

and

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, the latter in collaboration with

. Reward has offices in

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, London, Belfast,

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, Dubai,

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and

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. Dein was a Non Executive Director of a globally recognised talent representation agency, IE MUSIC, a talent representation business from 2016-2018. Clients include

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, Craig Armstrong,

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and many more.

Personal life

Dein married Claire

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in 2014. The couple have two children a girl and a boy and currently live in Mayfair, London. Dein has been involved with the

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since 2012 chairing several boards including the Childline School Service, National Development Board and is currently a member of the Income Generation Committee.

References

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