Dan Meub
Executive Coach
Dan comes to Building Champions with a strong background as a seasoned executive and general manager in both consumer packaged goods and in the dynamic world of software. Before joining Building Champions in 2003, Dan made a career establishing new products in emerging categories. Dan’s specialty is coaching business executives on strategy, direction and marketing. In addition to serving as a Coach, Dan is fine-tuning our Executive Coaching practice, employing his experience with strategic planning, branding ideas and several management tools he has developed.
From VP to CEO roles, Dan has managed a wide variety of senior management teams through high growth or consolidation, and prides himself in helping companies make the jump from 50 to well over 1000 employees and from ten to hundreds of millions in revenue. Over 100 of Dan's previous direct reports are now senior executives themselves at the CEO, VP and Director level.
Dan’s specific experience includes time with Clorox®, where he helped launch KC Masterpiece® Barbecue Sauce and worked with a string of private and public software companies to help establish such brands as Harvard Graphics®, Calera® OCR Software, PC Tools® and Now Software®. Most recently, he led the WebTrends® web analytics business, first as its COO and then as GM for the Web Analytics Business Unit after it was acquired by NetIQ®.
Dan graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and later received his Masters of Management degree in Marketing and Finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Over the years, Dan has served on a variety of Boards, has been a long time mentor for the Education for Ministry program, a Stephen Minister and an active mentor and coach for a wide variety of organizations. He has a heartfelt desire to help executives develop more successful leaders within their ranks.
Dan and his wife Ann have two sons, Chris and Alex. In his spare time, Dan enjoys playing music whether it's singing in the church choir or writing "folk tunes" for guitar, cello, and other miscellaneous string instruments. Since relocating to the Northwest ten years ago, Dan and his family thoroughly enjoy an outdoor life style; from snow skiing at nearby Mt Hood to water skiing on Lake Oswego where they live.