Dave Boissonneault is the Chief Financial Officer for FTE Performance Consulting’s Michigan, USA office. Dave has over 25 years of financial and operations management experience in the automotive, consumer products, and medical equipment industries. Dave has worked in all phases of finance, accounting, logistics, purchasing, material and inventory management, and plant operations. He has led strategy teams, worked with private equity investors, and participated in business turnarounds.

His project experience includes:

• Finance lead responsible for a $65M program to launch new vehicle for large truck manufacturer
• Led Lean manufacturing and business system assessments at 2 large OEM manufacturers
• Led production relocation and supplier change overseas for a medical equipment sales company
• Financial, strategy, resource planning, lead for several greenfield automotive manufacturing plant launches
• Business system integration, design, training, and audit for greenfield manufacturing plant launches
• Cost model analysis, forecasting, budgeting, cost control, KPI, and inventory system implementations for several high volume sequence and assembly automotive launches
• Process champion utilizing “Lean” principles during his entire 25 year career

Prior to FTE Performance Consulting Dave spent 4 years as CFO & COO for two OEM equipment manufacturers; 3 years as CFO for a growing automotive supplier, and 19 years in various operations, logistics, and financial leadership roles at a large automotive supplier.

Dave has led executive teams in two organizations responsible for P&L, sales strategy, engineering and operations; led corporate teams with various lean and continuous improvement initiatives; developed budgeting, forecasting, quoting and program cost models; and participated on several greenfield plant launch teams. Additionally, his responsibilities have included IT and Human Resources.

Dave holds a BS of Accounting from Western Michigan University.