Bruce Hanson, Managing Director
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Bruce Hanson is responsible for the growth of the firm’s Chicago-area expansion, including customer relationships, delivery quality, profitability and employee recruitment.

Prior to his role at MorganFranklin, Hanson was Chief Operating Officer of Digital Kitchen, an Emmy Award-winning marketing communications firm specializing in the high-end motion graphics industry serving national advertisers and the television and motion picture industries.

Prior to Digital Kitchen, Hanson led the Midwest Division of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Entrepreneurial Services team and consulted to the top emerging growth technology and media companies. Hanson was also previously vice president at a New York-based professional technology consulting firm — one of two start-up companies he helped grow — and directed the firm’s corporate venture capital fund. Additionally, Hanson served several years as an investment banker in New York with Merrill Lynch & Co.

Hanson has extensive operating experience and expertise in developing key partnerships and alliances for rapid, profitable corporate growth.

Hanson is an Illinois native and is involved in a variety of small company advisory, charity and community boards. He is Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors of the Naperville ( Ill.) United Way and Chairman of the City of Naperville Financial Advisory Board.

Hanson earned a B.A. in French literature from Wartburg College and an M.A. in French political science and economics from the Institute of French Studies at New York University. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, and the Goethe Institut in Germany.