The NPD Group CEO and leadership

CEO, The NPD Group / Best-Selling Author, Mom.B.A.: Essential Business Advice from One Generation to the Next

Chief Marketing Officer at The NPD Group, a leading global market information company, with more than 2000 clients

As Chief Product Officer, Dan Hess is responsible for global product management and development. He oversees NPD’s flagship consumer and retail/distributor tracking services spanning more than 20 industries and leads the continued evolution of NPD’s product portfolio based on new and enhanced data and technology covering more markets worldwide.

Most recently, Dan was Chief Product Officer at Comscore, where he led a global organization in the design, delivery, management and support of all company products and custom analysis services. Previously, he co-founded and led a startup that created an omnichannel predictive modeling and personalization platform and was later acquired by Catalina Marketing. Earlier in his career Dan held various product, commercial, and operational leadership roles at Tribune Digital and IRI. Dan has served as an advisor to several technology and analytics startups, and as a speaker, analyst and advisor for numerous industry and academic organizations and media outlets. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of Rochester.

Consummate senior executive, visionary and entrepreneur. Unique ability to drive new revenue streams from concept and architecture through execution leveraging full resources and maintaining budgetary constraints. Prolific researcher / writer, platform speaker, and expert facilitator; considered a visionary in large scale technology integrations, capital and expense management, team training and development, and corporate consulting. Vast experience in managing start-up like businesses, \'dotcoms\', mergers and acquisitions, mature companies, and business turnarounds. Career reflects success in corporate world, academia, entrepreneurship and consulting. Posses extensive hands-on experience architecting, building & managing complex systems.

Specialties: Strategic Planning, Revenue Enhancement, Business Process Reengineering, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Organizational Change, Infrastructure Development, Emerging & Advanced Technology, Strategic Partnerships, Project Management, Corporate Development, Matrix Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Software Development, Software Architecture, Networking Infrastructure, Team Collaboration, Vendor and Commodity Service Negotiation.

Tim Bush is a Global Chief Commercial Officer at The NPD Group and is based in Port Washington, New York. He has worked as President, Home Products at The NPD Group; Senior Vice President Business Development at The NPD Group; and Vice President at IRI. Tim attended Florida State University - FSU between 1979 and 1983.

Tom Lynch works at The NPD Group and a COO & CFO at The NPD Group and is based in United States.

Avi Halutz is a Chief Information Officer at The NPD Group and is based in Greater New York City Area. He has worked as Executive Strategic Advisor at The NPD Group; Vice President, Technology, Marketing Information, Retail Systems at TIME INC.; and VP:Tech & Mktg Information at TIME INC.. Avi attended Columbia Business School between 1994 and 1996, Columbia Graduate School of Business, and Fairleigh Dickinson University.