Dean Klein is a former technical marketing director once responsible for the research and development of new business for operating companies as well as for corporate clients of Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA. The product markets in which he worked included specialty chemicals and materials, coatings, metals and minerals, among many others. Spending his boyhood in Atlanta and later, Westfield, New Jersey, Mr. Klein attended college where he earned degrees in chemistry, biology and marketing. Personal interests include writing (of course!), baseball, vintage British cars, visiting the South Seas, collecting exotic plants and wire hair fox terriers.