{"id":53578,"date":"2024-10-21T18:07:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/?post_type=all_speakers&#038;p=53578"},"modified":"2025-04-23T12:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T04:39:01","slug":"dean-kowarski","status":"publish","type":"all_speakers","link":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/speakers\/dean-kowarski\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Kowarski"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dean Kowarski is Group CEO at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginactive.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virgin Active<\/a> and has built careers in corporate, finance and operational roles globally.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>During his time in the corporate world, he experienced first-hand the benefits of exercise, recovery, mindfulness and nutritious foods as the essential, holistic formula for wellbeing. Dean Kowarski was appointed Group CEO of Virgin Active in March 2022 when the company refinanced and took over his hospitality business \u2013 The Real Foods Group \u2013 where he was Founder and CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dean will be speaking at <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/americas\/\">Beyond Activ AMERICAS<\/a> in Dallas, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Kowarski is Group CEO at Virgin Active and has built careers in corporate, finance and operational roles globally. During his time in the corporate world, he experienced first-hand the benefits of exercise, recovery, mindfulness and nutritious foods as the essential, holistic formula for wellbeing. Dean Kowarski was appointed Group CEO of Virgin Active in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58250,"template":"","speakers-type":[69,64],"class_list":["post-53578","all_speakers","type-all_speakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speakers-type-2025-americas-speakers","speakers-type-2025-emea-speaker"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/all_speakers\/53578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/all_speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/all_speakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speakers-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers-type?post=53578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}