Bringing over 30 years of experience in the contract furniture industry is with great pleasure that we announce that Donna Dapice has joined Arenson as the Managing Director for the Connecticut office. She employs an entrepreneurial approach towards improving policies and plans for greater efficiency. Donna is a natural leader who builds productive teams and rolls up her sleeves to get jobs completed beyond her clients’ expectations.

Experience

Before joining Arenson, Donna was Regional Manager at Gunlocke, managing the NYC Market. Under her tenure, she built a model territory, which provided a benchmark of expectations set for Gunlocke’s other regional markets. Donna was also the Sales Director of Haworth. Working with a team of 15 to grow Haworth’s market-share in the NYC area.

Before that, Donna worked on the client-side, serving as Director of Facilities for Lifetime Television and managing a $12 million facility budget for the company’s nationwide locations. She oversaw a team of 300+ employees and department contract personnel in the day to day operations. By applying experience in office furniture systems sales, Donna saved Lifetime almost $1 million related to furniture procurement. She successfully performed space analysis and lease negotiations for 5 Lifetime Entertainment Office expansions and relocation projects, delivering superior work environments ahead of schedule and below budget. In 2009, she was the recipient of the Award for Excellence in Design/Construction of a New Facility under 150,000 sq. ft. given by the Greater New York Chapter of IFMA for her role as project lead in the construction of Lifetime’s $18M NY Corporate Headquarters.

Donna has been an IFMA member since 2002 and received a BS in Interior Design from the University of Connecticut.