Conair CEO and leadership

Dara Meath is an Editorial Advisory Board Member at Total Retail Group, Business Owner at DestinyintheSkye LLC, and VCP Advisory Board at Lubin School of Business and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has worked as Vice President of Information Technology at Camuto Group, Advisory Board at The ExecRanks, and Director/Head of System Implementation at Apparel Business Systems LLC. Dara studied at Delaware Valley University, Kutztown, and Bucks County Community College.

Dennis Graham is a Chief Pilot at Conair Corporation and is based in Vancouver, Canada Area. He attended Marsden High School between 1960 and 1972.

Controller for public and private companies in pharmaceutical, medical device and services industries

• Directed departments to enhance accounting and reporting quality while increasing efficiency

• Led implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards, replacing U.S. GAAP

• Created European Shared Service Center which centralized finance processes and decreased operating costs to “world class” levels

• Led successful system migration from legacy Great Plains to ERP SAP system

• Big 4 experience

As Global CIO of Conair Corporation, Jon Harding holds worldwide responsibility for the company’s IT in support of both day-to-day operations, and future business growth. Jon joined Conair in 2004 in the new position of Global CIO. Under his leadership the Conair IT team has completed: global rollout of a centralized ERP system (SAP), development of a central source of management information (Business Warehouse), implementation of CRM and Supply Chain management solutions, and a worldwide SAP Upgrade and technology refresh to support all of Conair’s core business processes. Along the way, several acquired companies have been integrated into this central IT infrastructure in a 3 to 6 month timeframe. The multi-national IT team is customer service focused with the flexibility to meet dynamic business priorities arising from all of the different lines of business and brand groups (Cuisinart, Waring, BaByliss, Scunci, TravelSmart, Rusk and Allegro plus Conair). Before joining Conair, Jon held IT leadership positions in different business units of Kellogg Company, including U.S. Snacks Division (formerly Keebler Company), Kellogg Europe and Kellogg UK. From 1999 to 2001 he was the overall leader of a major business process and system change initiative for Kellogg Europe. In total Jon spent 17 years with Kellogg’s. A graduate of the University of Sheffield in England, Jon has 20 years of IT Business Partnership and management experience in the Consumer Products industry. He leverages this experience as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Consumer Goods Technology Magazine and associated events. During recent years he has presented on many occasions on the topic of IT-enabled innovation in Consumer Products and more general IT leadership concerns at a variety of CIO thought leadership events. Current focus areas are Mobility, Big Data, Digital Marketing and Predictive Intelligence using Software-As-A-Service solutions wherever possible.