David Klante (Dave) is President at DKE Consulting, LLC, a consulting and advisory practice for the packaging, food and beverage industries. Emphasis on manufacturing, engineering, supply chain and technology solutions. Dave held positions in Engineering and Supply Chain at Rexam, Packaging Corporation of America (PCS), MillerCoors, and McCain Foods. Dave’s work focused on facilities and capital plan development for over $3B in capital investments, optimization of manufacturing systems, supply chain network design/optimization, automation, process control, decision support tools, new product development/innovation, and large-scale business transformation of manufacturing organizations. Dave held positions as VP Milwaukee Brewery Operations, Corporate VP Packaging, and Corporate VP Engineering and Packaging at MillerCoors; and VP Engineering at McCain Foods North America.

Dave volunteers with numerous state, community, church and charitable organizations and mentoring programs. Dave served as a Corporate Board Member for Milwaukee School of Engineering. Dave received a commendation for Innovation by the State of Wisconsin in Manufacturing for his work in workforce transformation and redesign at the Milwaukee Brewery for Miller Brewing Company.

Dave completed his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1983 and received an Master of Manufacturing Engineering from Northwestern University in 1989. Dave and his wife, Margaret, reside in Brookfield, Wisconsin. They have 3 Children and 4 grandchildren. Dave enjoys traveling, and the outdoors of Wisconsin with an emphasis on hiking, boating, fly fishing and upland game bird hunting.