blueprinttoabillion.com

David G Thomson has a passion for innovation, business-building and leadership. His unquenchable thirst for identifying the difference-making traits of the most successful high growth businesses led him to a deep inquiry into the growth and management traits of America’s highest growth companies. Based on three years of detailed research of American companies that have IPO’d since 1980 and grown to at least $1 Billion in revenue.

Thomson’s recently released (John Wiley & Sons Publishing) Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth provides the first quantitative identification of the success patterns common across this distinctive group of “Blueprint Companies”. During the research period, Thomson presented early findings to over one thousand Fortune 500 executives, small company CEOs and investors to test his findings and gain insight to dig even deeper.

Since being published in January 2006, the book is its fourth printing. It is being translated in 4 countries and has been featured as the #1 best selling book on www.800CEOREAD.com. SoundView Book Summaries awarded the Blueprint to a Billion as one of the best business books for 2006.

Thomson has appeared on CNBC's Closing Bell and in such well know publications as the NY Times, Investors Business Daily, Entrepreneur Magazine, Leader to Leader (formerly Peter Drucker Foundation) - the lead featured article in the May issue, the cover story in May's Fortune Small Business and Red Herring Magazine.

Thomson has presented the Blueprint to a Billion to a vast audience including top tier VC firms including the National Venture Capital Association,, Fortune 500 CEOs, the Churchill Club and Deloitte & Touche Fast Company Awards.

Besides speaking and signing thousands of books, Thomson conducts workshops for high growth companies, provides consulting services. He has formed Blueprint Capital Advisors were he is incubating a Blueprint Company Index which is being calculated by Standard & Poor's Custom Index Group.

David G. Thomson has been leading business growth for 20 years in general management and executive sales/marketing at Nortel Networks and Hewlett-Packard. He also served as an Associate Principal during his five years at McKinsey & Company. Thomson graduated with an Electrical Engineering Degree for the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. He resides with his family in Overland Park, Kansas. His favorite hobbies are running, golfing and radio-controlled jets.

The hallmarks of Thomson’s business-building career was at Nortel Networks where, as General Manager, Residential Services, he led the development, standardization and deployment of advanced Wireline Caller ID services; Caller ID on Call Waiting and Telemarker Call Rejection. This initiative, in partnership with Bell South launched a billion dollar software and telephone business for Nortel. As Vice President, Sales and Marketing in both Nortel and HP, Thomson led strategic account growth from $100M to over $500M. These successes in large companies drove Thomson to identify the success pattern for standalone businesses.

David G. Thomson Bio