Chris Daniel Email & Phone Number

Work From Anywhere, Remote, Oo

Chris leads the growth of Toptal’s Consumer Products & Services industry practice, driving innovation and client success through outcome-based solutions. In his role, he collaborates with cross-functional teams to align capabilities, build go-to-market strategies, and deliver exceptional value to Fortune 500 and high-growth clients. Chris focuses on cultivating client relationships and partnerships, positioning Toptal as a trusted advisor in technology, talent strategy, and business transformation. He partners closely with sales, account management, and delivery teams to ensure strategic portfolio growth and alignment with industry trends and client needs. Drawing from over 20 years of experience at the intersection of retail, consumer, and technology, Chris navigates complex challenges while fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. He also mentors and advises team members, emphasizing resilience, adaptability, and relationship-building to achieve shared success.

Menlo Park, California, Us

Chris leads Protiviti's Global Food / Restaurant Industry Segment, while acting as a key member of Protiviti's Retail & Consumer Industry Go-To-Market Team and Enterprise Cloud team. He supports the growth of the industry's technology consulting practice, supporting $300m+ industry annual revenue, 5% YoY growth. He leads Food/Restaurant segment, responsible for the GTM strategy, solution sales plays, target accounts, & achievement of $110m annual revenue. Chris is also responsible for the practice development and $30m revenue target for the US Central Enterprise Cloud market via incubating Protiviti's Google Cloud Alliance.

Founded and grew business into executive-level digital transformation consultancy - Year-over-year retention of 30+ regional to multinational satisfied clients - Architected 50+ strategies and data-centric custom solutions driving growth and innovation - Established open, collaborative partnerships with 14+ tech, analytics, and agency organizations - Created Digital Assessment Readiness Tool to efficiently optimize client’s business goals - Developed CPG/Retail product to demo how to gain value in sharing data assets via cloud

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chris led the North America Retail, CPG, & Hospitality Digital Industry Practice, achieving $400m industry annual revenue & 8%+ YoY expansion. He was responsible for the Digital pracrtice go-to-market strategy, strategic sales plays, & achievement of digital revenue. He led a cross functional team of 4 sales executives, 2 engineers, 2 advisors, and 6 delivery teams. We was responsible for the design & deployment of the innovative iNdustry Next (4.0) retail solutions.NOTE: Maven Wave was acquired by Atos and eventually separated into a new company, Eviden.

Performed in a business GTM advisory role for new retail pricing technology startup.NOTE: Instok / OctoShop was acquired by Ibotta in 2022.

Performed in an architectural and business GTM advisory role for new medical note technology startup.

Chicago, Il, Us

Recruited by CEO/Founder to establish business operations and lead GTM for new cloud retail product startup - Responsible for biz ops: strategy, marketing, vendors, HR, $MM budget, & product development across 23 people, 40+ vendors & 5 board members - Collaboratively led design & implementation of new product launch, establishing a 865% growth rate, a 125% conversion rate, & multi-1000 impression rate - Architected 100% of the platform in Google Cloud, saving $215,000+ in compute, storage, & API services - Built high performing, lean/agile culture resulting in 200% output improvements + 150% increase in team satisfaction

New York, Ny, Us

Forge trusting relationships with multibillion-dollar Fortune 500 retailers across brands, categories, and regions to design solutions for managing large data sets and access/share data in the cloud. Provide strategic and technical expertise. Drive changes to an agile work culture. Serve as sales engineering technical SME, collaborating with sales, commercial, technology, product, and operations.

New York, Ny, Us

Recruited to serve as executive contact with Nielsen clients and internal client teams as product owner of AOD to support Nielsen’s transformation from privately held company to $6B company on S&P 500. Designed the initiative, acquired the talent, and led ~225 resources, driving focus on agile work processes and client satisfaction. Reported to global CTO, with oversight by North America Commercial SVP. Managed annual budget ranging from $15M-$20M. The success of the initiative contributed to stock price gain from $29.69 in 2012 to $46.60 in 2016, a 55%+ increase.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Recruited to co-lead a $20M+, 200+ team to deliver on the new CEO’s strategy to transform the IT & Operations, Small Business, and Underwriting organizations to a leading-edge business; Owned the Process Asset Library

Paris, France, Fr

Chosen as the Business Transformation leader to create the strategy, architect and transform E&Y’s management consulting business to Capgemini’s future-state model; Owned the Process Asset Library

London, Gb

Recruited to transform Ernst & Young’s management consulting practice to create a unique service offering empowering E&Y to differentiate themselves from the competition during the dot-com explosion

Bs, Engineering, Math

Bs, Physics