Dave Dunn

Managing Principal 

Dave Dunn is the managing principal of Branding Communications, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has spent more than 30 years as a branding professional working for start-ups, Fortune 500 firms and non-profit organizations.

He is recognized as an expert brand strategist and has gained hands-on experience with more than two dozen brands of some of the nation's largest firms. His experience includes new product introductions, brand building and brand restaging for:

  • General Foods
  • Warner Lambert
  • Seagrams
  • AT&T
  • Cheeseborough-Ponds
  • HP
  • Georgia-Pacific
  • Oakland International
  • Foster Farms
  • Heublein
  • Tenet Healthcare
  • KFC

In 2002, Dave was honored as the "Entrepreneur of the Year" by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Dave is a graduate of Stanford University and has an MBA from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. He is active in the community and was chairman of the Oakland Convention & Visitors Bureau from 2005 - 2007.

Dave, a sought-after speaker, has authored numerous newspaper and magazine articles, a series of white papers, and written five handbooks on branding:

  • Branding: The 6 Easy Steps
  • Inventing Big Ideas
  • Brand Architecture: Your Blueprint for Success
  • Web Site Audit Handbook
  • The Social Media Planning Guide