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Dan Doherty is a former Big Four National Managing Partner with 38 years of experience guiding the creation of future-ready, customer-centric organizations. He has a proven track record of delivering innovation and growth through process excellence, technology enablement and resiliency, data intelligence, and change management. Throughout his career, Dan has continually tackled new, unstructured challenges—uncovering and accelerating value with vision, discipline, and a willingness to learn. He enjoys building and empowering creative, high-performing teams and has recruited and developed numerous executive leaders. At KPMG, Dan created and led multiple “firsts” that were integral to rebuilding the US Advisory practice and forged a business/relationship development culture—all elements that transformed the firm into a modern, digitally enabled business. Most recently, he was asked to lead the firm’s Digital Business Transformation strategy and serve on the US Management Committee. Guiding a team of cross-functional technology professionals, he introduced leading technology capabilities and cloud-based solutions, leveraged data as an asset at scale, strengthened security and resiliency, and created global delivery centers. He also enhanced service efficiency, quality, and cycle times after establishing a Lean methodology-based enterprise transformation office. Previously, Dan led a dramatic operational and cultural improvement as head of firmwide business development, overseeing the firm’s growth strategy. During this time, he implemented structures and training that enabled consistency in sales, marketing, and account management. Dan joined KPMG as an Advisory Partner, helping rebuild and drive growth of the firm’s national Advisory practice. As the Midwest Area Advisory Managing Partner and a US Advisory leadership team member, he restructured the organization and expanded services in target growth areas. Dan transitioned to KPMG after starting his career at Arthur Andersen. Over his career, he has been a trusted advisor to clients in the life sciences, consumer products, retail, and manufacturing industries on a wide range of issues, including M&A, shared services, internal controls, and external audits. He earned a BS in Accounting from DePaul University and is a licensed CPA in New York.

***((As I reflect on my career and successes, I have thrived tackling unstructured challenges—uncovering and accelerating value with vision, discipline, and a willingness to learn. A hallmark of my work style is “shoulder to shoulder” to realize shared goals and desired outcomes. I want to leverage this work style and experience with PeakSpan and your investee entrepreneurs. I would characterize my strength as broad based and I will add the most value where the opportunity is multi-functional and unstructured as compared to a structured, well-defined issue or opportunity in a single function (e.g., HR or Supply Chain) that likely better fits with other experts in the community. I hope to leverage my expertise in: 1. go to market, including account planning and development, buyer identification and segmentation, channel strategy and SI engagement 2. building/ growing consulting / advisory capabilities that can complement the SaaS product, digital transformation, including development of a data strategy 3. cyber security design and program development 4. cost optimization, including sourcing strategies 5. organizational change management, including team hiring and development 6. and effective governance.))