Dave Fuente (born in 1945) is the Chairman of the operations consulting firm SSA & Company, LLC. He is also on the board of directors at

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, Sunrise Senior Living, Inc., and a past Director of

Dick's Sporting Goods Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. (stylized as "DICK'S Sporting Goods") is an American sporting goods retail company, based in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. The company was established by Richard "Dick" Stack in 1948, and has approximately 854 stores an ...

since 1993. He became the Presiding Non-Management director of Dick's Sporting Goods on March 16, 2010. He is the Director of OPEN Sports Network, Inc.,

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, and is a trustee of the University of Miami,

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, and Baron Select Funds - Baron Partners Fund. Business Week
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Education

Fuente obtained his BA and MBA degrees from Purdue University.

Career at Office Depot

He became the Chairman of

Office Depot The ODP Corporation is an American office supply holding company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The company has combined annual sales of approximately $11 billion, and employs about 38,000 associates with businesses in the United States. ...

in 1987 and was the company's director and

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from December 1987 to July 17, 2000. Fuente took the then fledgling company public in 1988 and increased its footprint from 173 stores in 1990 to over 1000 stores by 2000 when he relinquished his CEO title. He continues to serve on the company's

Board of Directors A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organiz ...

. Forbes.com
/ref> Prior to Office Depot, Fuente was the President of the Paint Stores Group of Sherwin-Williams for 8 years. He also served as the marketing director at Gould Electronics, Inc.

References

External links

* http://www.ssaandco.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuente, Dave 1945 births American retail chief executives Living people Krannert School of Management alumni