Dan Clarahan

About Dan Clarahan

C-Level Executive with several successes in start-ups, new ventures and turn-around businesses: • Significant global business leadership experience and expertise in P&L management, operations leadership, the development and implementation of business strategies, multinational organizational development and change management. • Decisive leader who has led profitable growth in established organizations such as Kimberly-Clark and Procter & Gamble, yet also thrives in the turbulent environment of start-up and turn-around businesses. • Formerly Chief Operating Officer of EcoCom, a biomass-to-energy start-up company, and recently led the successful U.S. business expansion of a Canadian Consumer-Tissue-Products company as President of K.T.G.(USA) Inc. • Led the engineering, development and successful commercial deployment of new products, processes and equipment in the personal care products, tissue products, paper, agricultural, renewable energy and process industries. Have successfully commercialized new products in over 30 countries and led or guided over USD 2 billion in capital projects in France, Italy, Mexico, Australia and the U.S. • Holder of 13 U.S. and numerous foreign patents. • Conversational in French and German and spent six years working and living in Europe. • BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois; completed the Advanced Executive Program at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business and was an elected School Board member for 10 years.

Experience

1. President

   United Converting Tissue Srl

   Jan 2016 — Present · US

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  B.S.

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  Advanced Executive Program