Dave Anderson - Director of The Manufacturing Task Force & Board Member for The Coalition for a Prosperous America
David Anderson is a business strategist and turnaround specialist with more than 30 years of success leading organizations through transitions, with experience in all phases of enterprise formation and development. Dave has demonstrated results in manufacturing, marketing, financial control, policy, and governance initiatives. He has a raised capital, led acquisitions and divestitures, start-ups and shut-downs, completed foreclosure purchases and led businesses through Chapter 11 to solvency. He is presently an independent consultant working with manufacturing firms in revitalization engagements, including operations, marketing and innovation.
Dave’s passion is manufacturing, which he believes is a critical wealth-creation element in our economic system. He leads The Manufacturing Task Force, operating out of Colorado Springs, and is on the Board of Directors for The Coalition for a Prosperous America, conducting economic education through Town Hall meetings focused on revitalization in tradable goods production. While acknowledging the challenges presented by outsourcing and offshore operations, Dave believes that careful nurturing and management of intellectual property can provide smaller domestic enterprise with competitive advantage. He believes that there are as many opportunities as ever to be rewarded for innovation, and he seeks to create macro- and micro-level results.
Dave was born in Flint and grew up around the auto industry in Detroit, then spent fifteen years with PPG Industries, in a variety of domestic and international financial and operating roles. As a second career, he built an electronics assembly business from one location with fourteen people to six locations with 800 people. Dave’s undergraduate degree is in economics and his masters is in business administration; both degrees are from Harvard.
