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Bret Bero joined American Capital Strategies in 2007 as a Vice President on the Operations Team with a focus on services companies. Prior to joining American Capital, Bret was the President, North America for Drake Beam Morin (DBM), a leading global provider of career transition services. Bret was recruited to lead the turnaround of DBM’s North American business that generated over $75 Million in revenues from its 80 offices and 950 employees. DBM North America was able to significantly increase its profit margin by establishing enhanced management control systems and new service delivery processes. DBM also was able to acquire new customers by instituting sales management processes and developing industry segmented marketing strategies. Prior to DBM, Bret and a partner founded ECHO Industries, Inc. to acquire the assets of a metal forming manufacturing company in a leverage buy-out.
Bret has over 17 years of increasing leadership roles in world class consulting firms. As a Partner at Accenture, he was the operations lead for the Human Performance service line, and developed the Organization Strategy service offering. Bret was a Vice President and led multi-discipline project teams in addressing Business Process Reengineering, business strategy, and organization change issues for clients in the Diversified Industries/Diversified Services industry group at Gemini Consulting. While he was with Price Waterhouse, Bret addressed client cost management and financial effectiveness issues. His clients have included firms such as Marriott, Highmark BlueCross/BlueShield of Western PA, Ferguson Enterprises, Bausch & Lomb, National Services Industries, Lanier, Oldsmobile, Tupperware, Harry & David, KeyCorp, New York Life, and International Thomson. | 