David E (Dave) Olsson Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

Strategic and operational consulting firm with a practical "hands-on"​ approach helps emerging and global firms to build high-impact business strategies, sales & marketing programs and operational performance initiatives to accelerate business outcomes to achieve “distinct” market positioning, revenue growth, profitability and customer expansion.• Gain rapid innovation benefits driven from actionable discovery insights into your market, enterprise and organizational challenges defining "root cause"​ levers, implementable options and actions for swift, meaningful outcomes.• Increase your corporate value building a practical, proven “Innovation Blueprint” that aligns your business strategies, your key assets and market goals to accelerate your business vision, distinctive brand, revenues and operational performance goals.

Newton, Massachusetts, United States

BRIDGE Energy Group, a Clean Energy leader of large scale, high value Smart Grid operational performance solutions for transforming innovative electric and gas industry utilities resulting in its acquisition by Accenture.• Transformed professional services firm into a high-value leader of strategic C-level solutions, operational implementation programs and expertise-oriented thought leader of Grid Modernization, Utility Operations and Security and Analytics solutions that drive business innovation, organizational efficiency, leverage data & digitization, distribution services provider (DSP) models, renewable expansion and enable new customer choices.• Gained leading utilities "operations performance"​ brand recognition at the forefront of providing technology and operations utility transformational solutions including "bridging the gap"​ between Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT), the NYREV, smart grid pilots, DOE Western US Synchrophasor deployments, EMS projects, micro grid initiatives and predictive analytics platforms for solar load forecasting, SCADA dashboards and geo-spatial visualization.• Rapidly built distinctive market position meeting utilities transformational economic, technological, social and consumer choices increasing profitable revenues 94% and EBIT 121%.

Greater Boston Area And Europe

Successful NASDAQ Merger - Transformed firm into high-value communications solutions company launching new business model with “award winning” portfolio entering new “Fortune 1000” enterprise marketplace.• Created scalable, innovative “blueprint resulting in ”253% bookings, 191% revenue and 593% backlog growth entering innovative Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Managed Services Telecom Expense Management optimizing growth & long term customers. • Architected “award winning” software and communications technology platform expanding applications 400% and the product line 300% gaining industry analyst accolades and high-visibility, multi-year enterprise contracts.

Strategic Blueprint re-positioned enterprise software and consulting solutions company targeting financial services markets with workforce productivity and business optimization solutions resulting in successful merger.• 40% profit and 40% revenue growth in first year reversing revenue declines re-vitalizing sales and marketing programs with innovative operations performance optimization portfolio.• Re-positioned firm eliminating corporate debt in the first year and gaining strategic product development partner strengthening company for acquisition.

Growth Transformation – Built blueprint and executed plan to reverse declines and to achieve dramatic growth from $50 to $145 million in two years re-positioning IT staffing firm to target high-value Human Capital & Project markets - Biotech/Healthcare, Financial Services, Communications, and High Tech. into high-value Human Capital and IT Consulting Services market resulting in eventual in merger.• 263% revenue growth elevating corporate branding, introducing C-level to buyer sales programs, targeting markets with customer-centric solutions, gaining partners, accelerating delivery and streamlining operations;• 400% profit growth with clear strategic goals and operational objectives, efficiently flattening organization, expanding role-based training, high performance functions, teamwork and improving organization morale. • $145 million P&L management tightly aligning corporate goals with functional objectives, people skills, well defined processes, market positioning, PMO growing customer satisfaction and financial objectives.

Successful IPO - Created Strategic Blueprint & led execution driving revenues from $15 million to $75 million in two years re-architecting financial services technology firm into high-value consulting services provider resulting in outstanding bottom-line and successful IPO.• 500% revenue growth leading sales, marketing, infrastructure and solutions portfolio management successfully penetrating financial services markets.• 400% increase in profits launching C-level, strategic sales and marketing approach introducing new, high-growth LOB portfolio including Systems Integration, CRM, Electronic Commerce, and Outsourcing. • IPO event climbing to $300 million day one market capitalization.

Achieved North American Market Leadership - Led Telecom and vices and telecom divisions into high growth CSS, BSS and OSS markets for $4 “billion” global systems integrator, software and consulting firm. • 300% over revenue targets winning high-visibility world-class financial services & telecom service providers.• Architected successful market leading portfolio for the wireless/mobile business support systems (BSS), operational support systems (OSS), billing and customer support systems (CSS) provider markets.• General Manager for the North American Communications and Financial Services Divisions leading sales, marketing, customer engagements and portfolio management penetrating new, high growth markets.

Successful NASDAQ Outcome - 700% revenue growth capturing over 40% “intelligent peripheral” (IP) market dominance refocusing company from enterprise to public Wireline and Wireless service providers markets leading corporate blueprint, product innovation and management, pricing & competitive analysis, marketing programs, marketing communications and business development. • 700% revenue growth from $18 million to $125 million with aggressive market, business development and product innovations setting the stage for attaining over “billion” dollars in revenues and multi-billion dollar market cap.• Over 40% market share dominance achieved in the America’s and Asia growing market cap 610% launching innovative business to consumer marketing programs stimulating behavior change & technology adoption.• Directed all marketing communications, pricing, competitive analysis, and product management including ground-breaking in-sourced IP design and outsourced development programs decreasing time to market.

Created business "Blueprint” for the $1.5 billion non-regulated NYNEX mobile wireless network and technology businesses driving investments in markets, products and technologies.

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