Ed Dahl is a retired pharmaceutical executive with over 30 years of highly diversified business experience in three different industries: industrial lighting (GTE Sylvania) consumer packaged goods (Gillette), and pharmaceuticals (Nordic, Marion Merrell Dow, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Aventis, Sanofi and Dermik Labs). His experience at Dermik Labs, a Dermatology company will be especially valuable to Devonian.
As GM of the company, he helped grow the Canadian business, quadrupling sales in just 5 years. As Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at Sanofi Canada he completed a $50 million skin care transaction. When retired, he consulted various institutional and private clients in business evaluations. Ed holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University in Montreal with a major in economics (1979). In addition, Ed was previously a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and held a Certification in Production and Inventory Control (CPIM).