Harry Dent is a Director at Strategos and has nearly twenty years of "front-line" experience in the food and specialty food industries in creating profitable, sustainable growth through consumer-based innovation. Prior to coming to Strategos, Harry was President of The Quaker Oats Company's Ready-To-Eat Cereal business, and a member of the company's operating committee. His experience in marketing and senior management roles involved applying both close-in and game-changing innovation to drive profitable growth in mature and emerging categories, on established and new brands, across products, channels, processes, and new markets. His background combines applying innovation to deliver profitable growth across industries with experience leading successful implementations of enterprise-wide change and innovation initiatives, including retooling management processes and metrics for innovation. As a former executive of a Fortune 500 firm, Harry's knowledge of the operational obstacles to innovation offers a valuable perspective to change-minded clients. Harry holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Columbia University.