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WHO WE ARE - DJ CRANE

DJ Crane is a proven “business navigator” who has delivered strong results for enterprises ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies as head of the Business Navigation Group. His vision and operational perspective comes from C-level experience as the former President of the GE Healthcare Information Management venture and CEO of ANS Communications, the first Internet Service Provider acquired by AOL.

He also held SVP and GM roles in marketing, sales, business development, and product development with GE Information Services (GEIS), Bell and Howell, and SCT Corporation. This operating executive experience helps DJ bring a pragmatic perspective to consulting large clients, including Universal Studios, Deloitte Consulting, Safeguard Scientifics, Software AG, and Commonwealth Industries.

For early stage technology companies, DJ has served as outside director and as interim CEO for three startup firms at the request of investors and boards. In this role he has developed many business plans and funding strategies, negotiated partnerships and channel arrangements, and created effective new product introduction programs through collaboration with executive teams in dozens of companies.

DJ was a Miller Scholar in the MBA program at Stanford Business School, and graduated with distinction from the US Naval Academy before serving in the nuclear submarine program. He also completed GE’s highly regarded Executive Development Program. When not at his twelfth-century farmhouse in Tuscany, DJ lives with his wife near Cincinnati, having nearly raised four children between them.

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