David R. Palmer, PhD
Consultant - Coach - Speaker
Associate of Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE

David Palmer is an experienced management consultant, executive, educator, and professional speaker. His expertise in the areas of management, marketing, organizational development, finance, and research is based on over twenty-six years of work in industrial and professional service settings.

Dr. Palmer has provided consulting services and implemented development programs for companies of all sizes, including Pacific Gas & Electric, Pacific Telephone, General Motors: Pontiac Division, Amdahl, Varian, Nike, Seagate, Toyota, Hewlett-Packard, Royal Bank of Scotland, International Data Corporation, and IBM. In addition, he is a combat veteran having served as an Infantry Officer with both the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and has held a variety of senior management positions, including President, Vice President of Marketing, and Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer.

He has also applied his management knowledge internationally having lived and worked in Europe, Mexico, and Asia. For example, he developed a business plan for a new Europe-wide venture of a Fortune 500 company, managed major marketing research projects in France and the United Kingdom, established multiple foreign subsidiaries, and negotiated a settlement with Japanese tax authorities. Numerous three-day workshops have also been developed and delivered internationally for the University of California at Berkeley.

For the past ten years, and currently, he is a Partner with the Customer Manufacturing Group, a marketing consulting firm in Santa Clara, California. The firm assists clients with the application of manufacturing principles to the marketing and sales process.

Dr. Palmer is included in Who's Who in California and is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants, the American Marketing Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Society for Training and Development, and the National Speakers Association. He also co-authored the book, Marketing Allied Health Educational Programs.

He holds a degree in Economics and Accounting from Claremont McKenna College, a M.B.A. in Finance and a M.S. in Accounting from the Wharton Graduate School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a M.A. and PhDin Management from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant, Real Estate Broker, and teaches in the MBA Program at Santa Clara University.

This unique blend of hands-on experience in management, marketing, finance, and research...along with his consulting, teaching, and public speaking background...allows him to directly relate to the concerns and issues confronting today's managers.

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