is President of GDI Consulting & Training Company and Chairman of Gerald E. Dunn, Inc. (GDI). He is also a Partner in Dunkirk Governance Specialists, LLC, a New York based consulting firm that provides governance consulting services to private company Boards of Directors. Mr. Dunn is the founding sponsor of the Manufacturing Executive Institute (MEI), a manufacturing industry training provider with state-of-the-art training facilities in California.
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, Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, AON, Applied Materials, Arkema, AT&T, Auto Club of Southern California, Balboa Instruments, Aventis Behring, Ballard Power Systems, Bal Seal Engineering, Banner Pharmacaps, Baxter, Baxter Biotech, BIC Graphics, Boeing, Borg-Warner Industrial Pumps, Boston Scientific, Chamberlain Group, Chiron-Cetus, CMC Rescue, Colas, DePuy Medical, Donaldson Company, Dresser-Rand, Ernst & Young, General Instrument, General Motors, Greenheck Fan, Hoffinger Industries, Hughes Aircraft, Hyland Labs, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Klune Industries, Lockheed-Martin Idaho Technology Company, Loral, Lumonics, McElroy Manufacturing, Mitsubishi Of America, Monier Lifetile, Nalley’s Fine Foods, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Labs, North American Produce, Northrop Grumman Aerospace, Novalar Pharmaceuticals, PaperPak Products, Phelps Dodge Mining Company, Purdue Pharmaceuticals, Raytheon Aircraft, Rhodes Technologies, R.W. Lyall Company, Siemens Solar Industries, Siemens Applied Automation, SmithKline Beckman, Sony Corporation, Stanley Tools, 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)
- Accelerating Cost Reductions for the Manufacturing Enterprise (2 days)
- Accelerating Cost Reductions For the Lean Manufacturing Enterprise (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)
- Driving Business Performance With New Metrics & Incentives: 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 Manufacturingsm: 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 Engineering 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 has also presented 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 8 years on the Board of Directors. He served as Chairman of the 1989 APICS International Conference and Technical Exposition and has served for the last several years on the APICS Body-of-Knowledge Council, an important group of individuals who are tasked with defining the operations management body of knowledge. Mr. Dunn was also a past Chairman of the APICS Education Strategy Committee. Alan 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 liquid asphalt manufacturing facilities located across 7 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 California and Switzerland. Mr. Dunn is also a Member of the Board’s Compensation and Audit Committees.
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) where he won the prestigious Director of the Year award in 2007. Mr. Dunn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business management from California State University in Fullerton.
