About Doug Dome
Founder & CEO
Doug Dome is an independent board member, operator and strategic advisor who has built, bought, integrated, scaled and sold marketing services businesses.
Through Dome Consulting, he advises private equity firms, boards, CEOs and marketing services leaders on Enterprise Intelligence and the decisions that surround ownership: due diligence, post-close value creation, governance, commercial performance, recapitalization and exit readiness.
Dome Consulting combines operating experience with an investor and board perspective. Doug's work focuses on situations where growth, ownership, intelligence capability and enterprise value intersect, especially in marketing services businesses.
The perspective is practical: what does the company actually own, where does critical knowledge live, how dependent is performance on individuals or outside platforms, what should management build next, and what will a future buyer be able to verify?
Operator Experience Applied to Ownership Decisions
CURRENT WORK
Experience From the Operator's Side
OPERATING EXPERIENCE
Doug has operated inside private equity ownership, worked directly with boards, integrated acquisitions and advised leaders through periods when growth, governance, capital, leadership and exit considerations collide.
That experience informs Dome Consulting's approach to diligence and value creation: evaluate the operating reality beneath management claims, translate findings into priorities, and keep the work tied to the investment thesis and the evidence a future buyer will require.
Worked Through the Decisions That Change Enterprise Value
OWNERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
From 2014 to 2017, Doug founded Core7 around the idea of a closed-loop marketing intelligence system designed to connect data, insight, strategy, execution and learning.
The platform did not become the scaled commercial system originally envisioned, but the underlying questions remain central to Dome Consulting's current work: how companies retain learning, reduce dependence on individuals and vendors, and convert intelligence into capability the enterprise can own and govern.
The Intelligence Thesis that Predates the Current AI Wave
EARLY INTELLIGENCE WORK
ADVISORY AND LEADERSHIP
Senior Judgment for Consequential Decisions
Dome Consulting works with private equity investors, boards, CEOs and independent agency owners on defined decisions involving diligence, post-close priorities, governance, growth strategy, commercial operating systems, institutionalization, recapitalization, succession and exit preparation.
Through this work and a broader operating career spanning senior leadership roles across advertising, public relations, experiential marketing, digital marketing, integrated marketing services and marketing transformation consulting, Doug brings direct exposure to the commercial and organizational issues common across different agency models.
The work is designed to complement legal, financial, cybersecurity, technical and transaction specialists. Dome Consulting focuses on the strategic, operating, governance and enterprise-value questions that sit between those disciplines.
Leadership roles gave Doug experience across different ownership structures, operating models and stages of company development, informing how he evaluates growth, leadership, institutionalization and enterprise value today.
A Career Across Marketing Services
SELECTED CAREER HISTORY
Recognition Across Leadership, Creativity and Innovation
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Operating Experience Informed by Teaching and Writing
TEACHING AND THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Advanced Business Education
EDUCATION
Leadership Beyond the Business
SERVICE AND PHILANTHROPY
