Featured Speaker

Daron Gifford

Daron leads the firm’s strategy consulting practice. With more than three decades of automotive and manufacturing experience, Daron is known for his versatility and thoughtful, strategic client insights.
Daron’s extensive experience includes both operations and strategic management consulting with OEMs, suppliers, dealers, and aftermarket service providers. His additional areas of expertise include commercial market and operational assessments, due diligence, restructuring, and business strategies for technologies in advanced vehicles, energy, and environmental applications.
Immediately prior to joining Plante Moran, Daron was Managing Director and Treasurer of the Stellar Alliance Group in Troy, Michigan, where he served as a senior adviser to the U.S. Department of Energy on the automotive industry. He was a partner in the global automotive consulting practice at A.T. Kearney from 2008 to 2011 and has also lead the automotive consulting practices for Deloitte and KPMG.