Denali Partners

  Peter Brennan
  Greg Heinemann
  Mark Lacek
  Margaret Murphy
  Rick Boubelik

Greg Heinemann

Managing Partner

For the past 25 years, Greg has demonstrated his expertise in launching and building brands and companies with a focus on immediate growth. Greg has done this for category leaders such as Best Buy, Payless ShoeSource, Honeywell and UnitedHealth Group, as well as with ascending, entrepreneurial brands such as Airforce Nutrisoda, RedBrick Health and The Geek Squad.

Greg started his career in consumer packaged goods sales & marketing and health care marketing and then jumped to the agency side, running $200 million of businesses for Carlson Companies. He was also President of an award-winning branding and design firm – Agency Eleven. For the past five years, Greg ran his own branding and product launch consultancy, Blackwatch LLC.

Greg is currently a Director of the James J. Hill Foundation of St. Paul and Jumpnode Systems of Minneapolis. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Notre Dame.