DAVID H. STONE

Dave has been a Managing Partner & Principal at the New England Consulting Group for more than fifteen years.

Dave’s career encompasses an extensive combination of management consulting, business development and general line management experience, all with the common goal of driving growth through focused strategies and executable plans.

Prior to joining New England, Dave managed both consumer and B2B organizations including executive positions as Senior Vice President at Honeywell, Chief Marketing Officer at Pepsi International and marketing management at Kraft.

Many of Dave’s accomplishments have been focused on building out core business capabilities including multi-channel sales systems, new product development functions, and marketing research protocols for marketing and sales organizations.

During the past ten years at NECG, Dave has been responsible for leading major practice areas including customer and channel management, organization design and brand portfolio management across sectors from food and beverage, to retailing, to financial services and telecommunications. With representative clients such as Nestle, Philips, Sprint, Motorola, Office Depot, Hallmark, VNU, Visa, Simmons and Ocean Spray, he is equally capable of providing counsel to Fortune 50 global organizations as well as to smaller and mid-sized operations.

Dave has also been involved in early stage business concepts providing board-level counsel for start-up ventures including internet video streaming, specialty snacking, mobile applications and content management. As part of this focus, Dave has also been very active providing counsel to private equity firms ranging from Thomas H. Lee Partners, to Bruckmann Rosser Sherrill, to KKR.

Dave received a BA in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA from Bernard Baruch Graduate School of Business, and has been an instructor in business classes at Pace University.