Dan Pfau

Dan Pfau is an Executive-in-Residence with True North Advisors Group.

He has spent more than 25 years advising businesses and information technology executives on business strategy, strategic use and management of IT, IT effectiveness, eCommerce strategy, and business reengineering.

Dan spent more than eight years as a partner at Accenture, first as the head of the Financial Services sector of the Information and Technology Strategy practice and then within the Strategic Information Technology Effectiveness domain. His clients included numerous members of the Fortune 500 as well as emerging and startup companies such as DB Alex. Brown, ABN AMRO, Bank of America, Lend Lease, Liberty Mutual Insurance and John Hancock.. In his final assignment at Accenture, he operated as the ‘chief of staff’ to lead the design and implementation for the global repositioning of Accenture’s Strategy and Business Architecture service line.

Prior to joining Accenture, Dan was a vice president at CSC Index, where he was responsible for business reengineering and IT management and strategy engagements across a broad set of industries.

In addition to his work with True North, Dan is a member of the Dean’s Global Business Council at Brandeis University’s International Business School.

Dan holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Brandeis University (Magna Cum Laude) and an M.S. in Computer Science and M.E. in Information Sciences from Harvard University. Dan enjoys running, bicycling, skiing and boating in his spare time.