{"id":125662,"date":"2021-07-30T06:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/barry-dean-ceo-luci-making-power-wheelchairs-smarter"},"modified":"2021-07-30T06:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:22:56","slug":"barry-dean-ceo-luci-making-power-wheelchairs-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/barry-dean-ceo-luci-making-power-wheelchairs-smarter","title":{"rendered":"Barry Dean, CEO, LUCI \u2014 Making Power Wheelchairs Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1X3gsI1xyAY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Making Power Wheelchair Technologies \u201cSmarter\u201d \u2014 Barry Dean, CEO, LUCI<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Barry Dean is an award-winning songwriter turned smart wheelchair technology company founder.<\/p>\n<p>As CEO of LUCI (<a href=\"https:\/\/luci.com\/),\">https:\/\/luci.com\/),<\/a> a company re-imagining mobility for power wheelchairs, Barry sets the strategic vision and leads the company towards its goal of providing security, stability and connectivity for power wheelchairs. He founded the company with his brother, Jered, in 2017 with hopes of building a smarter solution for his daughter Katherine and all power wheelchair riders.<\/p>\n<p>Barry has written multiple No. 1 singles including \u201cPontoon\u201d (Little Big Town), \u201cDay Drinking\u201d (Little Big Town), \u201d Somebody\u2019s Daughter\u201d (Tenille Townes), and \u201cThink a Little Less\u201d (Michael Ray), along with a Top 40 hit with \u201cGirls Chase Boys\u201d (Ingrid Michaelson). He has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Song on Tim McGraw\u2019s \u201cDiamond Rings and Old Barstools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barry is a founding writer at Creative Nation Music, Recording Academy (GRAMMY) Nashville Chapter Governor, and has previously served two terms as a board member of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. Prior to becoming a songwriter, he led market strategy and product development for a leading education technology company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/barry-dean-ceo-luci-making-power-wheelchairs-smarter\">Continue reading \u201cBarry Dean, CEO, LUCI \u2014 Making Power Wheelchairs Smarter\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making Power Wheelchair Technologies \u201cSmarter\u201d \u2014 Barry Dean, CEO, LUCI Barry Dean is an award-winning songwriter turned smart wheelchair technology company founder. As CEO of LUCI (https:\/\/luci.com\/), a company re-imagining mobility for power wheelchairs, Barry sets the strategic vision and leads the company towards its goal of providing security, stability and connectivity for power wheelchairs. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,42,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-media-arts","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}