The Team
Bill Sones
Founder & Managing Director
Bill is the Founder & Managing Director at Daymark Consulting. For nearly 20 years, Bill has managed client projects including market diligence cases for private equity clients and strategy reviews for their portfolio companies. He has led efforts for clients in industries as diverse as financial services, manufacturing, industrial services, software / technology, and insurance services.
Prior experience includes the Monitor Group, a leading strategy consulting firm, where he was a team leader for M&A and strategy projects with clients in industries including insurance, telecommunications, consumer products, and software and Investor Group Services, where he led diligence and strategic projects for investors across a variety of industries including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and business services. Before joining Investor Group Services, Bill was a consulting manager at The Lucas Group where Bill led strategy and diligence efforts in the retail, automotive, technology, manufacturing and aerospace industries.
Bill graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in Industrial Management and holds an MBA from Yale University.
Ken Beausang
Managing Director
Ken is Managing Director at Daymark and Founder of its partner firm, Lambay Advisors. He is a seasoned consulting professional with expertise in market strategy and research, private equity and strategy consulting, and a track record of accomplishment as a senior business development executive in earlier stage companies. Ken provides strategic insights and actionable recommendations to private equity investors on their acquisition targets, and to C-level executives on their market opportunities and go-to-market strategies.
Previously, Ken was a Senior Vice President at Investor Group Services, where for over 7 years he led ~150 consulting engagements for private equity investors and corporate clients in industries such as industrial products and manufacturing, business services outsourcing, healthcare, software and information technology, packaging, transportation / logistics and building products. Before IGS, Ken spent 10 years in the software industry in senior sales and marketing positions driving revenue and market penetration for growth-oriented companies.
Ken holds an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and a B.Sc. degree from Trinity College in Ireland.
Ken Beausang
Managing Director
Jodi Dreher
Director
Jodi has advised private equity firms, portfolio companies, startups, SMBs, and Fortune 500 companies throughout his 20-year professional career, where consulting has always been a theme. He currently provides market diligence transaction support and acquisition screening to private equity firms and growth strategy guidance for their portfolio companies across a wide range of industries including healthcare, financial services, technology, manufacturing, transportation, professional services, and others.
Prior to joining Daymark, Jodi was a senior business advisor to legal department and other business leaders of some of the most respected Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 organizations worldwide, providing strategic planning, high impact legal benchmarking, indirect strategic sourcing, organizational re-design, technology assessment, market assessment, growth strategy, and other consulting services.
Earlier in his career, Jodi held leadership positions with e-commerce, waste management, construction, media management, and marketing startups, many of which he helped launch, and advised other SMBs on growth strategies.
Jodi holds an MBA from the Boston College Carroll School and Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree from George Mason University.
Who We Are
Founded in 2011, Daymark is a boutique strategy consulting firm providing research, analysis and market–based advisory services critical in the investment process and in driving the growth of companies