Dynamic Business Leader and Industry Visionary
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
- Current
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- Director at Stealth Mode Start-up
- Author at Auto Success Magazine
- Interim CEO at carFolks.com
- Managing Partner at Hein Capital Ventures
- Past
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- Author at Dealer Communications
- President & CEO at BDC Management Group
- Executive Regional Director at ADP/Traver Technologies
- Chief Marketing Officer at Proquest Company
- President & CEO at AuctionAuto.com
- Education
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- Bowling Green State University
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Dave Hein’s Summary
Based on his extended success in building and managing technology and service businesses throughout his career, Dave Hein has founded Hein Capital to provide his experience, drive and motivation to the executive leaders of today's leading early-stage companies.
With a specific focus on clear definition of the business activities that generate revenue and build early companies into long-term successful enterprises, Mr. Hein helps these early-stage entrepreneurs to rapidly build technology, while defining and placing top-level executives to drive early adoption of the services and grow revenue at an accelerated pace.
Building businesses activities that attract the right investors is key to the continued success of small business today. Hein Capital helps to put the best companies on the fast-track to profitability and growth through investment capital.
Dave Hein’s Specialties:
A leader focused on execution, Mr. Hein has developed and guided organizations of all sizes in the areas of Business Development, branding, identity creation, mergers and acquisition, contract negotiation, sales and business leadership coaching and funding. Success throughout his career is defined by the growth and expansion of top-level teams focused on the execution of aggressive and unique business propositions.
Dave Hein’s Experience
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Director
Stealth Mode Start-up
(Photography industry)
June 2008 — Present (7 months)
Ever wonder what it would be like to have buyers define the next product you develop and bring to market? Keep your eyes open for exciting opportunities coming soon.
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Author
Auto Success Magazine
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year)
As a leading expert in business operations with a focus on building long-term beneficial relationships with customers, Mr. Hein is the Author of a series of customer-service centric articles featured in Auto Success Magazine.
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Interim CEO
carFolks.com
(Automotive industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year)
As Interim CEO, Dave is focused on recruiting and developing the Executive Management Team and financing for this industry-changing technology company servicing the retail automotive marketplace.
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Managing Partner
Hein Capital Ventures
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Hein Capital Ventures is a business partnership firm that works exclusively with early-stage companies to build value and clearly define a strategy towards revenue growth. With a key focus on the development and fulfillment of key executive roles, Dave works with business owners and executive managers to focus early efforts on creating results that will define the business and aid in rapid funding for accelerated growth.
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Author
Dealer Communications
(Writing and Editing industry)
January 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 6 months)
Dave Hein is a regular contributor in several Industry publications, including Dealer Magazine, Digital Dealer Magazine and Dealer Fixed-Ops Magazine and their Web portals. While delivering creative and thought- provoking material to his readers, Mr. Hein continually develops new and innovative ways to improve the operations withing the retail and OEM specific marketing and response marketplace.
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President & CEO
BDC Management Group
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2002 — September 2007 (5 years 3 months)
BDC Management Group is an automotive R&D company that focuses on fulfillment and sales process roles through retail distribution. The primary service provided is yourDealer, a fully staffed and actively managed business development center for the retail automotive business, providing real time interaction between dealerships and customers.
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Executive Regional Director
ADP/Traver Technologies
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; adp; Management Consulting industry)
March 2001 — June 2003 (2 years 4 months)
Mr. Hein was originally recruited to this position to develop and build the e-commerce training platform for retail automotive dealerships for the Traver Consulting division of the company. Having successfully implemented this process for dealership groups such as John Elway, Maroone, Bill Heard and others, Mr. Hein then continued to develop and distribute innovative sales process related resources for dealerships throughout North America.
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Chief Marketing Officer
Proquest Company
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; pqe; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 1999 — February 2001 (2 years 1 month)
Mr. Hein joined then Bell & Howell to guide their e-commerce initatives through the crowded waters of the overdeveloped times. As a leader in creating noticable Web presence, Mr. Hein worked to develop the worlds largest online portal for the Powersports Industry, Motorcycleworld.com. The growth and dominance of this property owttrafficked most Automotive sites through Mr. Heins reign. In this role, Mr. Hein was able to foster deep seeded relationships with eBay Motors, Yahoo Automotive, Altavista, Looksmart, Disney's Go.com and ABC Interactive to leverage the community built and maintained by the Motorcycleworld.com property.
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President & CEO
AuctionAuto.com
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
January 1994 — February 1999 (5 years 2 months)
AuctionAuto.com was the leading technology that enabled retail automotive dealers to sell new and used cars online using a dynamic (auction) pricing format.
The company was founded in 1994 as Everything Automotive, part of the Carlink Network as the portal to everything automotive online. Having developed a network of over 7,000 dealership clients, Everything Automotive evolved into AuctionAuto.com, which enabled the first vehicle transaction online in 1998.
In early 1999, Mr. Hein sold AuctionAuto.com in the attempt to continue to grow the company and it's services in the struggling Internet automotive marketplace.
Dave Hein’s Education
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Bowling Green State University
Marketing 1987 — 1989
- Activities and Societies:
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Club hockey league;
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Dave Hein’s Interests:
Investing, technology, snow skiing, sailing, sailboat racing, photography, ice hockey, roller hockey, travel, networking, opti sailing
Dave Hein’s Groups:
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Cleveland Yachting Club, Holimont Ski Club, Friend of Bill W, Rocky River High School, RRHS 1987, USODA, CODA, COSE, US Sailing
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Dave Hein’s Honors:
Contributor at DigitalDealer Magazine, Contributor at Auto Success Magazine, featured in Automotive News February 2008, featured in Portland Business Journal in June 2008, Featured in Crains Cleveland Business September 2008
Dave Hein’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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