Will Ander Senior Partner

Will specializes in consumer insights, strategic planning, and new concept development. His outstanding educational background and extensive retail experience have proven invaluable in the analysis and interpretation of consumer and retail data. During the past nineteen years at McMillan|Doolittle, Will has worked with a number of retail and service businesses on strategy and new store development, feasibility and concept assessments, and retail best practice studies. These include Best Buy, Saturn, Sears (&the great indoors), McDonald’s, Harris Teeter, Radio Shack, Carrefour, Lowe’s, Oprah’s Boutique, Allstate, Staples, Cabela’s, and others. He has also worked with a number of retail suppliers, service providers, and institutions, helping them to develop strategies and business plans that better serve their retail customers. These clients include Garmin, Lozier, Lenox, Danville, IL, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Nestlé, Underwriters Labs, and Procter and Gamble.

Will’s academic credentials, which include graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Stanford University, an assistant professorship at the University of Houston, as well as a National Science Fellow at Stanford University, are complemented with strong corporate and retailing credentials. The latter includes management responsibilities in corporate planning and development, store management, retail operations, consumer research, operations analysis, and distribution planning during his 15-year association with Montgomery Ward. He has also had management assignments for Foley’s Department Stores, Agency for International Development, NASA—Manned Spacecraft Center and the Center for Naval Analyses.

Will is a member of National Retail Federation and the International Council of Shopping Centers and has spoken on retail topics at a number of their seminars and conferences. Will recently co-authored a book entitled “Winning at Retail” which was published by John Wiley in early 2004. Will’s hobbies include skiing, soccer, and collecting art rock posters from the 60’s.