Dan Braun Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio

Senior Vice President Value Improvement Initiatives--OperationsBuilt and led a newly created Cintas division of key corporate departments: Safety and Health, Engineering, Centralized Fleet Management, Quality Assurance, Productivity Initiatives, Six Sigma, Hospitality Segment Operations, and Service Training and Development.---Reduced injury rates by over 55% and lost day work day case rate by 52% over 5 years.---Improved OSHA compliance/safety audit scores from 68% to 99.6%.---Presented the Cintas Safety Journey and The Application of Transformational Leadership Skills at The Harvard School of Public Health, March 2013 and March 2014.---Built an entire Centralized Fleet Management team and DOT compliance program. Improved DOT compliance from 0% to 98.5%.---Devised and implemented a Reliability Scorecard Program for all plant equipment and Raised company performance from 39% to 93%.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Group Vice PresidentOversaw the overall sales and profit performance of 18 Cintas operations located in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Supervised the operational results of all locations in their service, sales, production, administration, and human resources functions.---Led the development of 18 General Managers and 6 Staff Directors in this group of over 1600 employees and $220M in annual revenue.---Improved sales growth to over 12.7% from 1.5% in 3 years. ---Improved net profit performance to 16.8% from 11% during the same period.---Earned the #1 group rank of all 15 regional groups on two different Key Performance Indicators (KPI) benchmarking reports.

Columbus, Ohio

After joining Cintas in 1990 as plant manager in Columbus, Ohio, was promoted to General Manager of the same operation in 1994. As GM, increased and maintained sales growth from less than 1% to double digit growth within 1 year while maintaining one of the highest profit margins at Cintas. The Columbus location also remained a top ranked location in the region as measured by a variety of operational and sales KPIs. Promoted to Assistant Group Vice President (Northeast Group) in 2002 and Group Vice President in 2003.