Dave Owen

Dave leverages insights from multiple industries, having worked in automotive, transportation-oriented manufacturing, industrial distribution, chemicals, healthcare, business services, retail, cleantech, and others. He has also spent much of his career working on international assignments in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. This breadth of experience proves an asset in the work he does – bringing new ideas to persistent issues and helping think through different approaches with his clients.

Dave believes in working as an integrated partner with his client teams to bridge business functions with each other, the company with its partners (customers/vendors), and Management with the Board of Directors. Sample projects include improving cost performance, enhancing market/product/vendor portfolios, designing the operating model, and optimizing working capital.

Over the past decade, Dave has been leveraging advanced analytics techniques and data visualization to help solve challenges with efficiency and high effectiveness. These techniques prove effective in smaller scale applications where they have not yet been considered and provide high impact compared to large scale system solutions.

Dave’s professional experience includes:

• Designed a propensity-to-pay predictive model to identify which collections action for which customer would drive the best collections result, and thus working capital
• Built a product recommender algorithm to help inform sales trends, train sales force, and boost profitability
• Adapted a clustering algorithm to identify customer profiles which helped craft go-to-market strategies and inventory optimization
• Evaluated retail location data to identify key attributes most correlated to performance, helping to create selection criteria for new stores or upgrade investments

Dave’s work linking process, data, and behaviors helps him and his clients build mechanisms to translate action into quantifiable results.

Prior to joining Ankura, Dave was a managing director in the CFO solutions practice at global consulting firm and before that, a Managing Director of the CFO team at a global business advisory firm. Dave has also served as a manager at a global business advisory firm as well as in various roles at manufacturing and industrial companies.