Launchpad Leadership
Dan Wallace
Dan Wallace has more than 20 years of experience helping companies create and realize value. He has worked with both mature and early-stage companies in more than 40 consumer and B-to-B sectors, both as an advisor and as a C-level executive. His experience as a strategy consultant, operating executive and investment banker gives him a unique perspective and the ability to identify opportunities, create and implement plans to pursue them, and turn the results into shareholder value.
Mr. Wallace began his consulting career at The Boston Consulting Group and subsequently held senior positions in two boutique strategy consulting firms. He later founded his own business advisory practice, through which he provided interim leadership to several companies, helping them accomplish significant business transformations. In one instance, he led a family-owned specialty finance company through a turnaround that produced a 6x gain in shareholder value in 24 months. Early in his career, Mr. Wallace was a Vice President of Corporate Finance at Sutro & Co. Incorporated (now part of RBC Wealth Management), where he completed both sell- and buy- side M&A transactions, LBOs and IPOs.
Mr. Wallace holds a BA from Whitman College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Bill Burnett
Bill Burnett has more than 25 years of experience in building and leading teams at both the global and local level. He has developed a talent and methodology to identify individuals who have superior problem-solving and innovation talents. His teams conceive breakthroughs to deliver optimal performance of Business Management, Customer Service, Operations, Network Infrastructure, Systems Functionality, Process Delivery, Policy Management, and Product Design initiatives. While based in the USA, Bill has worked in many cultural settings, delivering results for businesses in over 65 countries.