Brian Dennehy

Bain & Company is one of the world's leading business consulting firms. We work with top executives to help them make better decisions, convert those decisions to actions, and deliver the sustainable success they desire. The firm is passionate about achieving better results for our clients—results that go beyond financial and are uniquely tailored, pragmatic, holistic, and enduring. We advise global leaders on their most critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers & acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. I am part of Bain’s Customer Strategy & Marketing Practice, which is helping change the way corporate CMOs approach marketing in the digital age.

Nordstrom, Inc. is one of the nation’s leading fashion specialty retailers. Founded in 1901 as a shoe store in Seattle, today Nordstrom operates 240 stores in 31 states, including 117 full-line stores, 119 Nordstrom Racks, two Jeffrey boutiques, one treasure&bond store and one clearance store. Nordstrom also serves customers through Nordstrom.com and through its catalogs. Additionally, the Company operates in the online private sale marketplace through its subsidiary HauteLook. Nordstrom, Inc.’s common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol JWN. As the CMO, I supported all aspects of marketing for all channels and segments of the Company, as well as store design, and was a member of the executive leadership team.

SVB Financial Group and its subsidiaries, including Silicon Valley Bank, are dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed. SVB Financial Group is a financial holding company that serves emerging growth and mature companies in the technology, life science, private equity and premium wine industries. Today, SVB banks roughly half of the high growth technology startups in the U.S. and more than half of the venture capital firms that invest in them. SVB currently works with more than 13,000 client accounts through 26 U.S. locations as well as offices in China, India, Israel and the United Kingdom. As the CMO, I led all aspects of SVB’s marketing efforts, including multi-channel marketing, the company’s web sites, business analytics, clients’ insights, public relations and marketing operations. My role was to ensure that marketing strategies are well-coordinated globally across all products, channels and segments to better define the SVB Group value proposition.

Intuit has an array of flagship brands that is ever expanding to reflect the growing number of ways the company helps people solve their important problems. Over the course of my nearly 10 years at Intuit, I was one of the key leaders in sales and marketing for our renowned products and services. In my last role of the company I was responsible for creating and driving a company-wide data strategy that helped improve our products and customer experiences, as well as sales, marketing, and operations.

In charge of marketing and business development for Intuit's largest business unit, overseeing such market defining brands as QuickBooks and Quicken, as well as the broader "ecosystem" of Intuit's products and services targeted at small business. Part of the leadership team that shifted these brands from "desktop" software, to cloud-based, digitally marketed and delivered solutions for the new era of small business. This role was key in helping Intuit become one of the best known brands in small business and making Intuit's QuickBooks the #1 financial management software for small business serving more than 4 million customers on the web, through connected services, and on their desktops.

Headed both traditional and digital marketing, business development, and partner management for the world's best-selling line of web-based, mobile, and desktop tax prep products. Today, TurboTax serves more than 20 million tax filers.

Leader of Intuit's marketing into retail, OEM and other indirect channels. These channels have been key to the company's top-line success and are the #1 source of new users for Intuit.

Strategy and operations consultant at one of the world's leading global consultancies. Worked across technology, consumer products, retail, and leisure and entertainment clients, with a focus on sales and marketing.

Performed research for a policy think tank, as well as aiding marketing, membership, and publishing efforts (part time while in graduate school).

Coca-Cola Enterprises is the largest marketer, bottler and distributor of Coke products in the world. In my last role at the company, I was a district sales manager leading a number of sales regions in Northern California, responsible for the relationships and results with national and regional accounts. Negotiated local advertising efforts as well as in-store promotions and displays with retailers and restaurants. Directly supervised a large team of sales people, and indirectly managed our union drivers and merchandisers. Started with Coke while a college student (100% self-supporting) working in nearly every front-line position as a teamster: from truck driver and merchandiser, to salesman, and special events coordinator.

Consultant for a boutique strategy consulting firm, helping clients with product roadmaps and specifications, market sizing, as well as marketing and branding decisions.

Dissertation: Trade Protection in the Era of Globalization Areas of concentration: international political economics, global policy, and security studies