Dean A. Getz
President & CEO

Dean A. Getz founded Axiom, then a limited liability company, in March of 2001. Today, Axiom Advisors and Consultants, "the corporation" still known simply as "Axiom" annually serves more than 500 of California's school districts, county offices and educational associations. Axiom serves California's public education with emphasis on: public relations materials, fiscal and curricular data management and reporting.

Dean started his career in school finance and consulting in 1995, by assisting schools with their mandated cost claims. This experience eventually led Dean to form his own firm that he later merged with auditing powerhouse—Vavrinek, Trine, Day & Co., LLP in 1998. By 2001, Dean led the this hugely successful mandate preparation practice was spun off from Vavrinek, Trine, Day & Co. to become a separate company, Centration, Inc.

While at Vavrinek, Trine, Day & Co, Dean offered the first professionally prepared School Accountability Report Card to school districts, and thus, an industry was born. Through Dean's vision of offering "universal platforms" which bolster universal cutting-edge data manipulation and analysis, Dean has been able to secure partnerships with two highly respected school organizations: California School Boards Association for the SARCSelect™ family of products and School Services of California for the Bargaining Hunter™ application.

Today, Dean through Axiom and its partners are leading the charge for delivering the latest methods of reporting and evaluating the status and condition of California's public schools. Dean, a well-known expert in the mandated cost claim preparation arena continues to leverage his entrepreneurial skills by focusing on introducing timesaving and cost-effective products and services to the cost conscientious public school system. A California native, Dean holds a Bachelor of Science from California State University, Sacramento.