A. James DeHayes, CLU, ChFC

Principal, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. DeHayes is an authority on strategy development and implementation in marketing, distribution, and M&A support for the financial services industry. He has successfully guided clients through the complex process of designing and developing distribution systems tailored for new products, enhancing productivity and profitability of existing distribution, and adjusting legacy distribution to new competitive realities.

DCG has provided strategic and tactical management consulting services to the financial services industry for more than 25 years, completing hundreds of assignments for a wide variety of domestic and international clients. DCG clients cover the full spectrum of financial services ranging from life insurance to the health, property & casualty, and banking sectors.

Prior to founding DCG in 1983, Mr. DeHayes served as Chief Marketing Officer for a major diversified financial services company. As a consultant, his counsel is sought by clients throughout the financial services industry. He is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School Owner President Manager Program, a graduate of Leadership in Professional Services, a Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant from the American College , and holds an M.B.A. from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University .

Mr. DeHayes has addressed numerous industry conferences, is a professional member of the International Insurance Society, is a member of the North American Advisory Board for the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School (Dublin, Ireland), is co-chair for the Sacramento Chapter of the Harvard Business School Association, and is an officer for the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC). He is also a member of the New York Society of Analysts and the World Future Society. He has been named as one of the top 100 Irish Americans in business by Irish America Magazine each year since 2008.