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Dan Ilett leads The Executive Summary, which delivers insights and executive education on AI, growth and leadership for the people who run the world's best companies. He chairs the City CIO Club and advises technology firms and consultancies on narrative, commercial strategy, go-to-market and AI.
Through The Proposition, Dan has helped Fortune leadership teams rebuild the story they tell their clients and reshape their approach to customers, contributing to more than $1bn in closed sales.
He was formerly an award-winning business journalist, writing for the Financial Times, the Economist Group, The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times and various technology publications. He has advised IBM, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Cognizant, Equinix, the UK Government and SEB on AI, customer relevance, dealmaking, communication and organisational change.
Dan was founding editor of and investor in CoinDesk, which went from zero to one million users a day in six months. He enjoys teaching, writing, building online businesses and watching his two boys beat him at sport.