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Consulting business growth
Building a business around a clearer growth agenda
Scaled a consulting business fivefold, developing commercial momentum, leadership capability, and repeatable execution in financial-services markets.
Dan Stummer
Building businesses.
Turning technology into value.
I build and scale technology-enabled businesses—connecting strategy, commercial execution, and leadership to stronger growth, margins, and long-term enterprise value.
Currently leading Consulting Services at AHEAD.
Experience
Selected operating experience.
More than two decades building, transforming, and scaling businesses. The work spans commercial growth, portfolio focus, and the teams and capabilities that make execution repeatable.
1,800+ → 400
Offerings and assets rationalized
Making a complex portfolio easier to focus and scale
Led the rationalization of more than 1,800 offerings and assets to roughly 400. Asset revenue grew 45% year over year alongside this portfolio work.
AHEAD
Current leadership role
Leading Consulting Services
Building the commercial, delivery, and leadership capabilities that connect technical expertise to client outcomes and business growth.
Experience acrossIBMCapcoProtivitiAHEAD
Approach
How I build
stronger businesses.
Start with the customer and the economics. Understand what already works. Then connect commercial choices, technology, and leadership to improvements the business can sustain.
Growth and
commercial focus
Clarify which customers to serve, which offerings deserve investment, and how the business wins. Align pricing, sales, and delivery around a focused growth agenda.
In practice: Simplifying a portfolio means concentrating expertise and investment behind the offerings customers value—not merely reducing the number of products on a list.
Technology and
business economics
Evaluate AI and other technology through their effects on customer value, delivery quality, capacity, and margins. Change the operating model where that is necessary to capture the benefit.
In practice: Faster delivery only improves the business when pricing, demand, or capacity utilization allows the company and its customers to benefit.
Leadership and
execution
Give leaders clear responsibilities, useful information, and the authority to act. Build agreement across teams and make improvement part of how the business runs.
In practice: A stronger system develops capable leaders, preserves what works, and reduces dependence on constant intervention from the person who designed it.
About
A career spent
building businesses.
Dan Stummer is a business executive with more than two decades of experience connecting technology, commercial strategy, and operating leadership.
He currently leads Consulting Services at AHEAD. His experience across IBM, Capco, Protiviti, and AHEAD includes growing businesses, simplifying extensive portfolios, and developing teams that turn strategy into execution.
His perspective is grounded in the decisions that shape a business: where to invest, what to build, how to serve customers, and how to make performance more durable.
His broader interests include how AI changes business economics and how leadership, ownership, and governance influence long-term value.
Media & interviews
Conversations from the field.
Selected press coverage, podcasts, and interviews on AI, technology leadership, and the economics of change.
CFOs need to seize on AI’s “exponential growth”
Why leaders must move beyond incremental cost expectations and create room for experimentation, learning, and nonlinear growth.
CIOs face growing risk in financial-services IT
Technical debt, resilience, and the discipline to translate architecture into business economics.
The Modern CIO Dilemma
Why trust, experimentation, and a new relationship between technology and business are now leadership requirements.
What successful CIOs get right
Modernization succeeds when leaders connect strategy, resilience, architecture, and measurable business value.
Contact
Good businesses start
with good conversations.
For conversations about building businesses, technology, leadership, and long-term value, get in touch.
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