|
Dennis Chandler is President and Chief Operating Officer of the Office Products Group of ACCO Brands Corporation. He has served in this position since the company's creation in August 2005, and prior to that, served as President of the North American business with ACCO World, one of ACCO Brands' predecessor companies.
Mr. Chandler's career encompasses broad and deep operating experience across a range of consumer-oriented companies over the decades, including the Wilson Sporting Goods Company, Bell & Howell, and Walt Disney Consumer Products, in addition to extensive experience across the ACCO Brands organization. Across all of these companies, he has developed and executed strategies at the highest levels across the operational, sales and marketing functions.
In 1977, Mr. Chandler began his career working at Wilson Sporting Goods Company, where, over the course of the next 12 years, he moved up from the company's sales team into a number of key marketing and general management positions related to both the company's domestic and international businesses. His last position at Wilson Sporting Goods was Vice President and General Manager for the company's apparel & footwear division.
After working with Wilson Sporting Goods, Denny served as Vice President of Marketing & Licensing at Walt Disney Consumer Products from 1988 to 1990, and then President of the Sorting & Encoding Division at Bell & Howell from 1990 to 1993.
Mr. Chandler began his career with ACCO World in 1993 as Corporate Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, later moving into operations as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Office Products Group in North America. In these positions, he played a major role in overseeing the implementation of ACCO World's corporate-level strategies for growth and value creation. Mr. Chandler deepened his experience with the company's individual brands by following these roles as President of the company's Wilson Jones business from 2001 to 2003. In 2003, he became President of ACCO Brands' North American business.
Dennis Chandler has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA in Marketing from Indiana University. | 