David J Morrison

David J. Morrison is a Partner at Lee Equity Partners. Prior to joining Lee Equity, Mr. Morrison was President and CEO of Mercer Management Consulting, Inc. and Chief Executive for Mercer’s Specialty Consulting businesses, a portfolio of strategy, operations, and functional consulting firms (collectively, “Mercer”). Mr. Morrison joined Mercer in 1997 upon its acquisition of Corporate Decisions, Inc. (“CDI”), a growth strategy consulting boutique which he co-founded in 1983 with several colleagues from Bain & Company. During his 26 years of strategy consulting, Mr. Morrison worked with leading companies in the financial services, information services, computer hardware and software, pharmaceuticals, health care, and telecommunications industries. He devoted significant time to mergers and acquisitions for private equity, corporate, and internal Mercer constituents. He worked side-by-side with senior corporate management to evaluate opportunities and set acquisition strategy for Fortune 500 companies. At Mercer, Mr. Morrison sourced, performed due diligence, negotiated, contracted and integrated ten acquisitions, investing $500 million of capital, which became the core of $1.5 billion Mercer Specialty Consulting (now Oliver Wyman). Mr. Morrison is a co-author of The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow’s Profits (a 1998 BusinessWeek “Top 10 Best” Business Book) and Profit Patterns: 30 Ways to Anticipate and Profit From Strategic Forces Reshaping Your Business. He has authored articles for the “Managers Journal” section of the Wall Street Journal and contributed to the development of Adrian Slywotzky’s best-selling book Value Migration. Mr. Morrison serves on the board of directors of PDR Network, Sanbolic, and ProPT. Mr. Morrison received a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy and served eight years in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Flight Officer. Mr. Morrison received an M.S.E. from Princeton’s Aerospace Systems Lab and graduated with high distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.