Dave Hanley

I do startups, fatherhood and social ventures. No room for anything else. I'm a principal and cofounder at Banyan Branch (acquired by Deloitte Digital), father, Fulbright scholar, Stanford and BYU grad, digital marketer, adviser to nonprofits and forproits, and a citizen of NYC, Seattle, and Earth.

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Dave Hanley is the founder and principal of Banyan Branch, a leading social media agency acquired in 2013 by Deloitte, where he is now a principal. In his role as a leader of Deloitte’s social media practice, Dave is furthering the art and science of social as expands beyond its roots as marketing and communications channels to influence all aspects of today’s organizations. Dave’s clients include Fox, T-Mobile, Microsoft, Intel, Staples and Disney.

Dave has actively worked in social media marketing since 2005. While leading product development for the Rhapsody Music Service he helped bring the service natively to the web, then to a multitude of social sites via the web services program he developed and led. Dave was inspired by the early work of social networking sites, and joined with Rhapsody coworkers to create Shelfari, a social network for readers that grew solely through social and viral marketing to 2 million members after only 18 months, and was acquired by Amazon.com.

In 2012, Dave was appointed a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, where he is an active participant and advisor on YGL initiatives and is a frequent attender in Davos and regional forum meetings. Dave is an advisor to peer-to-peer education lender Vittana and the #WithSyria campaign, is actively developing a single-topic news site on the Bangladeshi garments industry, and serves as the strategist for the personal social media of one of the leading global philanthropists. Dave was a Fulbright Scholar working with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, and holds an MBA from Stanford University and bachelors and masters degrees in public policy from Brigham Young University.