With 15 years of business experience, Dan Bender brings both a consultant’s and client’s perspective to transformation. Before his consulting career, Dan spent over 10 years working in the consumer packaged goods and corporate software businesses. Dan provides his clients with a unique analytic skill combined with an ability to envision problems and solutions from the client’s perspective.
Dan has managed strategic consulting engagements in the US and Europe for major consumer goods, products, and services companies. Dan specializes in conceiving and driving process and technology changes into an organization to achieve measurable business results. Significant client engagements include transforming the business practices at Wisconsin Electric, MacMillan Publishing, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Herman Miller, A C Nielsen, Hillenbrand Industries, P & H Harnischfeger and DuPont.
Prior to becoming a consultant, Dan held senior marketing positions of brand manager and Vice President of product management. Most recently, Dan has worked as a staff consultant, manager, and director of strategic consulting for Price Waterhouse Coopers and ZEFER/Niteo, an NEC company.
Dan has a Bachelors degree in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Notre Dame and a Master in Management from the J. L. Kellogg graduate school of Management.