Author, Speaker, Founder & CEO, Consultant, Professor, Entrepreneur, Recovery Advocate, and alleged Human Person 😉 – Stephen Deason is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The OPARasa Group, a Social Enterprise helping people build worth in Recovery. Mr. Deason was previously CEO of GRYYT, a Socially Conscious MarTech firm, and has held C-level positions with three other technology companies. Stephen is an active volunteer who also sits on four nonprofit boards and the advisory boards of two startup technology and telecommunications firms. Stephen holds both an MBA and an MSc. in Accounting from Emory University, a BSc. in Mathematics from UAB, is ABD-PhD in Business, also from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School, and presently pursuing additional graduate studies at The Johns Hopkins University.