Hans Dau

Hans Dau is the CEO of The Mitchell Madison Group. Over his 25-year consulting career, he has served C-level executives of large public companies, private equity firms, and other public and private institutions. He has worked in North America, Europe, and Asia with a focus on devising creative solutions for complex issues and unlocking economic value for his clients and their shareholders.

​Hans has worked across many industries, including banking, insurance, manufacturing, technology, entertainment, and retail with a focus on short-term earnings improvement through strategic sourcing, pricing optimization and marketing analytics.

For example, he has helped a major insurance company manage $500M in legal expenses by introducing an industry-first lifetime cost per case model that produced 35% savings, consulted to launch a major online dating business, advised a software company on salesforce management, and developed a sales effectiveness and pricing optimization machine learning model for a large telecom company.

Prior to The Mitchell Madison Group, Hans was a senior vice president and co-founder of an enterprise software company and an equity analyst for Deutsche Bank in New York.

He received his MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a degree in business and economics from the University of Mannheim, Germany. He is a dual citizen of the US and Germany and currently resides in Jackson Hole, WY.

In his free time, he enjoys skiing, off-road motorcycles, and exploring the less populated and harder to reach places of the great outdoors with his two sons. Hans is a member of the Pacific Council of International Policy and frequently participates in their international delegations. He is the author of "Strategic Sourcing - Theory and Practice", available on Amazon.