The Beltrees Story
Co-founder David Peterson moved to Dunedin, Florida in 1971. In that quiet town on Florida's west central coast, he learned the values that still define him: focus, dedication, hard work, and making a positive impact on the people around him. Daily trips down Beltrees Street, a tree-lined road leading to the intracoastal waterway, took him to school, to baseball games, and to weekend fishing trips with friends.
As David built his career, he met people who shaped who he is today, among them Chet Taff, who shared a conviction to do the right thing over the easy thing and to always find a better way. The two had worked together as consultants and each had led procurement organizations for global companies. They kept seeing the same problem: procurement consulting had grown reliant on cookie-cutter methodology delivered by under-experienced consultants, making it hard to get the right support consistently. They wanted to offer something better, built on trust, integrity, experience, value, authenticity, and reliability. The impetus of these values was formed on Beltrees Street and became the corporate values of their professional services company that is now Beltrees Consulting. Those values, first formed on Beltrees Street, became the foundation of the firm they launched in 2017.
Today, Beltrees fields a scalable team of more than 50 seasoned consultants, each hand-picked to fit each client's specific needs. We serve healthcare, hospitality, technology, professional services, manufacturing, nonprofit, and private equity portfolio clients across engagements spanning strategic sourcing, procurement transformation and automation, private equity portfolio procurement, supply chain optimization, supplier relationship management, advisory services, AI-enabled procurement, GPO advisory, and business process outsourcing. Every engagement is tailored to the client's goals, because no two organizations are alike.