Dan Hodges

Dan Hodges has distinguished himself as one of the world’s leading business futurists by accurately predicting and monetizing the profound ways in which technology has impacted consumer behavior and business during the last twenty-five years. 

Dan began his career in New York’s advertising industry, working with industry leader Irwin Gotlieb to manage the one-billion-dollar Procter & Gamble media buying and global investments account. Dan moved in 1992 to Discovery Communications, working as a senior sales executive for seven years. Dan launched the company’s digital business, worked with Jay Chiat to develop the first interactive TV ad experience, and assisted founder and CEO John Hendricks in launching Discovery’s on-demand service.

In 2006, he joined Enpocket, which at the time enjoyed a forty-seven percent share of the US mobile advertising market. When Nokia acquired the company a year later, Dan was chosen to lead the largest mobile advertising sales force in the world, and he spent the next decade reimagining the world of mobile advertising.

Currently, Dan runs Consumers in Motion Group, a global strategic advisory firm that helps business leaders anticipate the future and innovate accordingly. He is the founder and CEO of the World Retail Forum and Retail Store Tours, which operates in fifty markets and creates business and consumer programs for attendees at industry conferences and other themed events.

Dan holds an A.A.S. in biotechnology and a joint B.S. from Syracuse University and the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry.