Dana Dimitri

Dana Dimitri provides clients with market-leading insights and advises them on their most pressing leadership challenges.

Dana works closely with leading commercial companies and leverages her more than 20 years of experience to identify, recruit, and develop executive and non-executive leaders, helping build future-ready management teams across the United States. She is a member of Russell Reynolds Associates’ Customer Activation & Growth, Consumer, and Board and CEO Advisory Partners Practices. Dana’s expertise spans all aspects of executive leadership. She has led high-profile searches and advisory projects for Fortune 500 companies, private equity portfolio companies, and family-and-founder-led companies, including Presidents, General Managers, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Growth Officers, Chief Customer Officers, Chief Commercial Officers, Chief Revenue Officers, Chief Digital Officers, and more.

Based in Chicago, Dana has deep industry experience in brand strategy, communications and public relations, ecommerce, customer engagement, and digital marketing. Dana previously served as the Vice President of Integrated Marketing & Customer Engagement at Potbelly Sandwich Works, where she was responsible for brand strategy, media, loyalty, and ecommerce. Prior to this, she worked at PepsiCo, where she focused on brand management, strategy, and M&A. Dana started her career as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.