Dainamic Consulting: Who We Are

Interim Executive
Practice
Strategic Marketing
Practice
Methodology
Results

Cynthia M. Dai, Founder and Principal

A seasoned entrepreneur, Cynthia Dai has co-founded several high technology start-ups and served on the executive team of both early-stage and public ventures. This hands-on experience combined with strong operational skills in marketing, engineering and finance has enabled Ms. Dai to build or reposition companies for rapid growth. Ms. Dai's strengths as an Interim Executive lie in attracting results-oriented senior management teams, developing strong business models and well-differentiated products, and maintaining a healthy respect for the bottom line.

Dainamic Consulting, Inc.’s Strategic Marketing Practice leverages Ms. Dai's career in senior marketing and business development positions at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard Company, and Interim CEO or VP of Marketing engagements with WebMoney, SSE Telecom, Cymerc Exchange, and Persistence Software. In addition to broad experience in all aspects of marketing from product strategy and strategic alliances to branding and positioning, she is trained in the Interaction Method for meeting facilitation and teaches a class on Organizational Leadership and Teamwork at the University of California at Berkeley.

She has considerable expertise in working with Japanese companies in the U.S. and in helping U.S. companies do business in the Pacific Rim. Ms. Dai speaks English, Mandarin Chinese, and conversational Japanese and has worked and lived in several countries around the world.

A featured industry speaker, she has spoken at COMDEX, UniForum, the Federal Computer Conference, the Government Technology Conference, and the Association for Information and Image Management.

Ms. Dai has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with honors from UC Berkeley. She is currently an Industry Fellow at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at UC Berkeley's College of Engineering. On her own time, she is active in the community as a volunteer and as a Board member of public-benefit organizations.

Associates

Our associates are seasoned individuals with 10+ years of experience in their fields of expertise, usually with credentials from top business schools. Biographies for consulting team members are supplied for each engagement.