Dennis Gallant is President and Founder of Gallant Distribution Consulting (GDC), and an industry expert with nearly 20 years experience providing strategic planning and analysis across the financial services industry.

Mr. Gallant's experience is diverse in analyzing trends in the financial services marketplace, providing strategic positioning, reviewing new product and service developments, and supporting business planning services to a wide range of broker/dealers, asset managers, banks, insurance firms, and service vendors. Mr. Gallant has excellent public speaking and presentation skills, and speaks regularly at industry conferences and has been quoted in numerous industry publications including The Wall Street Journal, Investment News, Business Week, Registered Representative, On Wall Street, Financial Planning Magazine, and the New York Times.

Mr. Gallant is a member of Retirement Income Industry Association's (RIIA) Research Committee (www.riia-usa.org) and a member of Dow Jones Wealth Management Advisory Council. (www.djwmac.com).

Prior to establishing GDC, Mr. Gallant was a Director at Cerulli Associates, leading the firms consulting and new business development efforts, executing consulting assignments, identifying and developing new business opportunities, and managing key client relationships for Cerulli. Mr. Gallant also established Cerulli's Intermediary Research Group, which was responsible for generating research and key Cerulli Reports covering trends and market intelligence on various financial service intermediaries, advisors, broker/dealers, and asset managers.

Prior to joining Cerulli, Mr. Gallant was vice president of marketing research for Funds Distributor, Inc. His responsibilities included market research, competitive analysis, pricing, and product development. He has also worked as a product manager supporting marketing strategies for banks and the RIA market. Mr. Gallant also held positions in mutual fund marketing and operations at The Boston Company.