Karl Dahlgren
Chief Product Officer
Karl leads the National Restaurant Association’s product strategy, development, and management as the Chief Product Officer. He joins the National Restaurant Association with more than 30 years of leadership experience in the banking, technology, nonprofit, and training industries. As a growth-oriented, P&L and business line GM, he has led product, sales, marketing, client services, technology and program management teams through transformation and other major business initiatives including, revenue generating partnerships, new market entry, equity & debt financings and cost cutting. He was previously the head of training lines of business as well as a data analytics line of business for two different nonprofits.
Karl has a BA from North Park University and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.