DENNIS GALLANT Dennis Gallant is Principal and Founder of Gallant Distribution Consulting (GDC), and an industry expert with 17 years experience providing strategic planning and analysis across the financial services industry.
Mr. Gallant's experience is diverse in analyzing trends in the financial services marketplace, providing strategic positioning, reviewing new product and service developments, and supporting business planning services to a wide range of broker/dealers, asset managers, banks, insurance firms, and service vendors. Mr. Gallant has excellent public speaking and presentation skills and speaks regularly at industry conferences and has been quoted in numerous industry publications.
Prior to establishing GDC, Mr. Gallant was Director at Cerulli Associates, leading the firms consulting and new business development efforts, executing consulting assignments, identifying and developing new business opportunities, products and services, and managing key client relationships for Cerulli. Mr. Gallant also established Cerulli's Intermediary Research Group, which was responsible for generating research and key Cerulli Reports covering trends and market intelligence on various financial service intermediaries, advisors, broker/dealers, and asset managers.
Prior to joining Cerulli, Dennis was vice president of marketing research for Funds Distributor, Inc. His responsibilities included market research, competitive analysis, pricing, and product development. He has also worked as a product manager supporting marketing strategies for banks and the RIA market. Prior to that, Dennis held positions in mutual marketing and operations at the Boston Company.
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