Profile

Dennis is is the current chair of the International Advisory Board

He is Executive Chairman of Kinetic Consulting – North America, and has a wealth of experience working in international business and with business schools, both in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Dennis is the current Executive Chairman of Kinetic Consulting, a boutique management consulting firm. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, it has a client base across Europe, North America, and Latin America.

Consultancy

Dennis consults on a variety of subject areas, such as:

• C suite leadership assessment and selection
• executive coaching
• strategy development/deployment
• organisation design
• large scale organisation transformation
• mergers and acquisition planning

Current roles

His current roles include:

• Senior Advisor to Private Equity, advising Bridgepoint, OMERS and Strategic Value Partners
• Advisory Board member of Springbuk, a health intelligence start-up dedicated to eradicating disease through data analytics
• Moderator of the podcast Wendepunkt – Inflection Points of Senior Leaders, which identifies the “lessons of experience” of successful senior level executives

Academia

He is an avid contributor to academia and has served on the following business school boards:

• Brigham Young University, US
• Kansas State University, US
• Xavier University, US
• Durham University, UK
• Northumbria University, UK

He currently serves on the Board of Visitors at the University of Alabama (his alma mater) as well as at Newcastle University.

Previous positions

Dennis has previously held prestigious positions in several high-profile international businesses, including:

• Private Equity experience at Bain Capital, Hellman & Friedman, The Carlyle Group and Sun Capital Partners
• Officer at Procter & Gamble
• Board Member of People Strong, a HR services platform based in New Delhi, India
• Four-time Chief Human Resources Officer at Walt Disney, Kellogg’s, Scripps Networks Interactive (now Discovery Communications) and NXP Semiconductors

While in these positions he played key leadership roles in over a dozen acquisitions, ranging in scale from $3B to $54B.

A lover of dogs, he is co-owner of Central Bark Doggie Day Care with his two sons, which will open in July 2023.