Dana Dorroh
Bio
After graduating from college, Ms. Dorroh's professional career started as a Human Factors & Graphics Specialist for an engineering consulting firm servicing the nuclear power industry. Always driven to own her own company, Ms. Dorroh started her own business in 1987 specializing in CAD drafting, training, and hardware & software sales. In the early 90's, Ms. Dorroh's company, CAD plus, merged with a reprographics company called Plain Paper Solutions. Over the next seven (7) years, Ms. Dorroh and her partners grew CAD plus/Plain Paper Solutions to one of the largest, most successful, women-owned businesses in North Carolina. Along the way, Ms. Dorroh and her partners purchased local competitors, launched branch locations, and started new businesses within the Carolinas and along the East Coast. In 1997, IKON acquired two (2) companies owned by Ms. Dorroh and her partners. After the acquisition by IKON, Ms. Dorroh was a General Manager for IKON Office Solutions and continued to run that operation until resigning from IKON in December of 2000.
With a 20+ year career in sales, marketing, and operations, Ms. Dorroh has worked as a consultant to HumanCentric since 2001. Joining the HumanCentric Board of Advisors in 2003 and then becoming an equity partner in 2007, Ms. Dorroh's key responsibilities with HumanCentric include business and corporate development as well as investigation and promotion of new ventures. On a day-to-day basis, Dana is the Managing Partner of a sister-company called One Source, a professional recruiting company working exclusively with architects, engineers, and designers.
In addition to Ms. Dorroh's work with One Source and HumanCentric, she has incubated, invested-in and mentored multiple start-up companies over the last 10 years including Peakton Digital Media, The News Desk, Triangle Tech Ads, HumanCentric Health, and Nurturing Self.
Ms. Dorroh's business and corporate development accomplishments with her ventures include the following milestones:
- Future 30 Awards in 1993 and 1995.
- Triangle Fast 50 Awards in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996.
- Led technical team to obtain Top Autodesk Dealer in the U.S. award in 1994, 1995 and 1996.
- Plain Paper Solutions ranked 314th on the 1996 Inc. 500 list of America's fastest-growing, privately-held companies.
- After being acquired by IKON, managed the growth of the CAD plus/Plain Paper Solutions enterprise to $9M while protecting profits and cash flow.
- Throughout her career, successfully built sales teams that sold products and technical services.
- In 1998 for IKON, coordinated the signing of multi-million dollar, multiple year facilities management contracts with commercial and government clients.
- 2001 to present, introduced multiple prospective clients that converted to active clients to HumanCentric.
- 2001 to present for HumanCentric, coordinated marketing efforts to promote HumanCentric and One Source to local business publications and other media sources.
- Women in Business Award from Triangle Business Journal in 2002.
- In 2002, HumanCentric Technologies named "Consumer Technology Company of the Year" by NCEITA (North Carolina Electronics and Information Technologies Association).
- In 2003, facilitated the merger between HumanCentric Technologies and Think Design.
- Triangle Fast 50 Award for HumanCentric from the Triangle Business Journal in 2004.
- In 2005, led the growth of One Source's revenue 108% over 2004's revenue.
- In 2007, One Source recruited and placed 79 people with our clients.
Ms. Dorroh's community efforts include actively serving on the Board of Directors for The Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities, receiving the Chairman's Outstanding Service Award in 2002. Serving as Board Chair in 2005 to 2006, Ms. Dorroh continues to be a voice for the profoundly disabled. Other current philanthropic activities include co-founding Legacy of Joy in honor, celebration, and memory of her mother, Rebecca Joy Tabor Dorroh, who battled cancer in 2007.
Ms. Dorroh holds a B.S. in Engineering from Mississippi State University.