Before becoming a Strategic Business Partner of Profiles International™, Dave built a thirty year career in the fast food, convenience store, vending, and Office Coffee Service segments, ultimately holding senior segment management positions at Oscar Mayer, Kraft Foods, and Starbucks Coffee Company.
Over his career, he developed successful relationships with corporate clients such as ARAMARK, Compass Group, Circle K, 7-Eleven and Standard Coffee Service Company, as well as many regional and local independent businesses in the foodservice industry. Dave also grew and enjoyed productive relationships with brokerage and distributive components, as well as segment specific media and national associations of each unique foodservice segment.
Dave feels his greatest professional (and personal) accomplishment of his successful corporate career was the fact that many of the people that he managed were able to move up to their own managerial responsibility. His own management experience gave him the understanding of the benefit of accurate personnel assessments as quality tools for developing key employee engagement and effectiveness.
Having received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, he also earned an Associate Degree in Marketing from the Madison Area Community College.
Actively involved in many volunteer capacities, Dave is a member of several commissions at Immaculate Conception Parish (Elmhurst, IL) In addition, Dave and his wife Rita actively mentor engaged couples participating in the Joliet (IL) Diocese pre-marriage program.
Dave and his wife Rita (Flad), are both from Madison WI, have been married for over forty years (’67), and have lived in Elmhurst, Illinois, for over 14 years. They have two daughters that live and work in the Chicago area.
