Advisory Panel Member
Daniel Greco
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Ark Applications, LLC
Managing Director Areas of Expertise
Understanding Customer Experience; Analytics and Measurements; Digital Transformation
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Dan is a highly proficient Senior Executive, C-Suite Officer, Entrepreneur, Consultant, and Board Member with over 20 years of success across staffing, logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, higher education, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, insurance, and private equity. Leveraging extensive experience in operations management and organizational development, he is a valuable asset for innovative companies looking for leadership vision; strategic planning; process improvement; and growth. His broad areas of expertise include business strategy; financial analysis, forecasts, planning, and management; risk management; negotiation; Six Sigma; scaling; and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) integration.
In his executive career, Dan has held leadership positions at Ark Applications; Garden Light LED; The Walt Disney Company; Johnson & Johnson; Novartis Pharmaceuticals; and BASF Corporation. He has been responsible for a 20% COGS reduction through supply chain operations restructure and manufacturing operations streamlining. He transformed an organization from transaction- to sales-driven, delivering 40% net income increase. He led initial implementation of an organization’s global visual communication standards, creating clearly-defined company and product branding. Implementing manufacturing metrics performance tracking, he supplied critical lead-time information used in product development, inventory analysis, and sales. Given an international-scope project, he led research and data analysis of $28B global procurement spends, and leveraged worldwide contracts to deliver $5.6B (20%) costs savings. He has developed and instituted enterprise PMOs supporting $1B revenue; charter best practices; integration evaluation best practices; uniform internal investigation systems; portfolio performance reporting; and risk mitigation standards. He has presented trends analysis, and gathered and reported >$800M in enterprise supplier diversity spending in NA; and validated >$28B in global category spending. He has wire-framed a 1M-supplier global database; and led numerous acquisition integrations. Dan earned a B.S. in Consumer Studies, Management, and Finance from Syracuse University; and an Executive M.B.A. in Supply Chain and Innovation Management from Syracuse University, Martin J. Whitman School of Management. He has served on boards and advisory councils, including for several of his investment ventures through Ark Applications; and University of Tampa (Entrepreneur in Residence). Dan has certifications in American Production & Inventory Control (APICS); Health Care Compliance; and Six Sigma Green Belt (with Six Sigma Black Belt training). Dan and his wife reside in Tampa, FL with their three children. |