Canback Dangel is led by Staffan Canback and Frank D'Agnese in Boston along with the heads of the country offices. We have almost 100 years of combined experience in working on market and consumer issues.

Dr Canback is co-founder and managing director of Canback Dangel. He was a senior partner at Monitor Company—a leading strategy consulting firm—from 1994 till 2002. Between 1984 and 1994, Dr Canback was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co—the world’s largest management consulting firm—where he was elected partner in 1989. As a consultant, Dr Canback focuses on marketing and market development issues. As an executive in the management consulting industry, Dr Canback has held practice leader responsibilities for units with $30 million in annual revenue.

Dr Canback received his DBA from Henley Management College/Brunel University in the UK. The dissertation, “Bureaucratic Limits of Firm Size: Empirical Analysis Using Transaction Cost Economics,” explores diseconomies of scale in large corporations. The research received first prize in the prestigious European Doctoral Dissertation Competition. Dr Canback also holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, which he attended as a Fulbright scholar, and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, where he graduated summa cum laude.

He has lived in India, Mexico, the UK and Scandinavia and makes his home in Boston since 1993. He loves travel, numbers, and the intricacies of running large corporations. But most of all, he loves his family; his wife Charlotte, and his sons Simon, Rasmus and Daniel.

Mr D'Agnese joined Canback Dangel shortly after its founding, specializing in building robust quantitative models of demand and consumer behavior. Over the years, he has taken on additional responsibilities and now leads our Global Consumer Goods and Retailing Practice. In this capacity, he oversees all of our projects in these areas and carries account responsibility for some of our key clients.

Prior to joining Canback Dangel, Mr D'Agnese worked as an investment banker in the Technology & Media Group at SG Cowen & Co. He holds a BA in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University.

Outside the office, Mr D'Agnese's insatiable appetite for food and travel has brought him to Kyrgyzstan for yak butter and Peru for fried guinea pig. He is intrigued by reports of a recently discovered rodent species in Laos.