About Our Founder

Alan G. Dunn is President of GDI Consulting & Training Company and Chairman of Gerald E. Dunn, Inc. (GDI). Before founding the GDI companies, Mr. Dunn was a Vice President at Gemini Management Consulting and a Partner at Coopers & Lybrand. For the ten years prior to joining Coopers & Lybrand, Mr. Dunn was President, (and Founder) of ADI, a successful consulting and training company that Mr. Dunn sold to Coopers & Lybrand in 1990.

In addition to his consulting experience, Mr. Dunn has many years of line management experience in manufacturing and distribution environments. He has extensive background in most functions within a manufacturing company and participated heavily in many significant projects.

Mr. Dunn has successfully performed numerous consulting and training assignments for over 28 years. His clients include, Allied Signal, American Cyanamid, Amgen, AON, Applied Materials, AT&T, Balboa Instruments, Ballard Power Systems, Banner Pharmacaps, Baxter, Boeing, Borg-Warner Industrial Pumps, Chamberlain Group, Chiron-Cetus, DePuy Medical, Ernst & Young, General Instrument, General Motors, Hoffinger Industries, Hughes Aircraft, Hyland Labs, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Klune Industries, Lockheed-Martin Idaho Technology Company, Loral, Monier Lifetile, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Labs, North American Produce, Phelps Dodge Mining Company, Purdue Pharmaceuticals, R.W. Lyall Company, Siemens Solar Industries, Siemens Applied Automation, SmithKline Beckman, Sony Corporation, Sybron Dental Specialties, Technicolor Video Corporation, Tellabs, Thornwood Furniture, Toshiba Corporation, Tropitone Furniture, United Technologies, U.S. Borax, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)-Idaho National Energy & Environmental Labs (INEEL), U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)-National Renewable Energy Labs (NREL), U.S. Justice Department (DoJ), Verizon, Warner Bros Home Video and Western Data Systems.

In addition to his consulting practice, Mr. Dunn regularly presents executive workshops at the Industrial Relations Center (IRC) of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. Programs presented at Caltech IRC and other venues include:

• Business Process Innovation: Achieving Breakthrough Improvements In Core Business Processes (2 days)
• Manufacturing Cost Strategies: Eliminating Waste & Creating Growth Capital (2 days)
• Activity Based Cost Accounting & Leadership: Strategies, Tactics
  & Tools For Accelerated Implementation (2.5 days)
• Implementing Statistical Process Control (2 days)
• Rapid Prototyping & Agile Manufacturing: Using New Technologies To Slice Product Development Time In Half (2 days)
• Business Performance Measurements: Aligning Strategy, Metrics & Compensation (2 days)
• Building Shareholder Value In Today's Market: A Framework For Linking Corporate Actions To Share Value (2 days)
• Global Business Strategy & Implementation: Connecting Global Strategy To Local Operations (2 days)
  

Alan has also independently developed and presents a number of multi-day executive workshops throughout North America. Favorite requested programs that Mr. Dunn often presents include:

• Corporate Economics For Technical Managers: An Innovative Simulation-Based Discovery Experience Guaranteed To Teach Technical Managers All They Need To Know About Business Finance (2 days)
  
• Symphonic Manufacturing^sm: A Comprehensive Manufacturing Enterprise Simulation (4.5 days)
  
• Building a Winning Global Commodity Sourcing Strategy: A Proactive Framework For Linking Suppliers To Your Factories (2 days)
  
• Supplier Process Engineer Fundamentals: How To Manage Suppliers Like Internal Work Centers (2 days)
  
• 5S Workplace Organization: How Organize Your Factory AND Increase Employee Involvement (2 days)
  

Mr. Dunn also presents executive-level Operational Due Diligence courses nationally for the American Management Association (AMA).

Alan is a past president of the Orange County Chapter of APICS where he also served for years on the Board of Directors. He served as Chairman of the 1989 APICS International Conference and Technical Exposition. He was also a past Chairman of the APICS Education Strategy Committee. Mr. Dunn continues as an active member in APICS and is a Certified Practitioner in Inventory & Production Management (CPIM).

In addition to his own Board of Directors, Mr. Dunn currently serves as an independent Director on the following Boards:

• Idaho Asphalt Supply Corporation, a large western states producer of asphalt paving and road coating products, with asphalt manufacturing facilities located across 5 states. Mr. Dunn is also Chairman of the Board's Compensation Committee.
• Natural Alternatives International, Inc (NASDAQ: NAII) an international producer of nutritional supplements with factories in Southern California and Switzerland. Mr. Dunn is also a Member of the Board's Compensation and Audit Committees.
• Bystrom Brothers, Inc., a 50 year old, full-service/full-capability precision machining company with manufacturing facilities located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• TMI Products, Inc., a leading edge manufacturer of automotive video systems and reproduction parts with factories in California and China.
  

Alan has served on a number of other Boards of Directors over his career. He is also an active member in the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and is currently a member of the American Managements Association's (AMA) Faculty Council. Mr. Dunn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business management from California State University in Fullerton.