Alan G. Dunn

Alan G. Dunn is president of GDI and chairman of GDI's business investment firm. He specializes in global manufacturing management, cost management, and business finance. Previously, Mr. Dunn was a partner at Coopers & Lybrand and a vice president at Gemini Consulting.

Mr. Dunn has worked with: AlliedSignal, American Cyanamid, Amgen, AT&T, Ballard Power Systems, Baxter, Boeing, General Instrument, General Motors, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Loral, MonierLifetile, Phelps Dodge, Sony Corporation, Sybron Dental Specialties, Technicolor, Toshiba Corporation, United Technologies, U.S. Borax, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Warner Bros.

Mr. Dunn is an international educator, speaker, and author on performance measurement, manufacturing systems, cost management, value engineering, business process reengineering, information systems management, business transformation, corporate governance, and business finance. He has addressed the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), the Council of Logistics Management (CLM), the Product Development Management Association (PDMA), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the National Association of Accountants (NAA), and the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). Mr. Dunn teaches the Caltech Industrial Relations Center manufacturing cost strategies course, Accelerating Cost Reductions.

His articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Material Handling Engineering, Automation, Production and Inventory Review, Managing Automation, Warehouse Cost Digest, Transformation Magazine, and Industrial Engineering Management.

Mr. Dunn has served on the boards of directors of both public and privately held international companies in the aerospace, asphalt production, automotive, and nutriceutical sectors. He is currently an active member in the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). The NACD chose Mr. Dunn to receive their 2007 Private Company Director of the Year Award. This award is given to a director who exemplifies the knowledge, leadership, and excellence in corporate governance that the NACD strives to promote through education, publications, and public service.

Mr. Dunn has a degree in business management.

Listen to Mr. Dunn's webinars: Accelerating Cost Reductions in Turbulent Times, January 2009; Implementing LEAN Methods in Global Product Development, February 2008; and Managing Global Supply Chain Risks, November 2007. Mr. Dunn also presents the customized course, Activity Based Costing, which can be brought into your company for team learning.