David G. Thomson is founder and Chairman of The Blueprint Growth Institute., a specialized management – consulting firm focused on helping companies achieve – exceptional growth. He has been described by Investor's Business Daily as "Guru uncovers patterns behind billion-dollar firms." "He does a terrific job of getting past a lot of misconceptions to say, 'Look at what the numbers show,' " says, Roger McNamee, a prominent Silicon Valley investor and an early investor in Cisco and Intuit.

David's passion for innovation, business-building and leadership is reflected in his writing, speaking, and consulting. He is the author of the best-selling book, Blueprint to a Billion ®: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth (John Wiley & Sons) that provides the first quantitative identification of the success patterns common across this distinctive group of "Blueprint Companies". Since being published in January 2006, the book is in its fifth printing with translations just released in Korea and China. SoundView Book Summaries awarded the Blueprint to a Billion as one of the top 30 business books for 2006. It was recently ranked the #4 best-selling book for 2007 at 800CEOREAD.com.

David's work has been featured in on CNBC's Closing Bell, MSNBC, ABCNews.com, Businessweek.com, TheStreet.com, and in such well know publications as the NY Times, the cover story in Fortune Small Business, Leader to Leader (formerly Peter Drucker Foundation) and Investor's Business Daily's Leaders and Success feature.

As a consultant and keynote speaker, he has worked with senior executives in many mid-sized companies and business units ranging from small two million dollar companies to multi-billion dollar business units, high-tech start-ups to universities and non-profits such as the YPO and the Churchill Club. While the size ranges are broad, they have one common need — to apply the 7 Essentials to achieve exponential growth! He has presented to at top Venture Firms in Silicon Valley such as the Mayfield Fund and Menlo Ventures.

Prior to founding The Blueprint Growth Institute, David has been leading business growth for 20 years in general management and executive sales/marketing at Nortel Networks and Hewlett-Packard. He also served as an Associate Principal during his five years at McKinsey & Company.

Thomson graduated with an Electrical Engineering Degree for the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. He resides with his family in Overland Park, Kansas.