Ken Herold Email & Phone Number

• As part of a unique team with extreme experience as both INTREPRENEURS in global companies and ENTREPRENEURS with various startups, "the Startup Within" focuses on integrating the tactics used in design thinking.
• the Innovation Roundtable: A group started 10 years ago that brings together members in 40 corporations in the St. Louis area that lead innovation in their companies. The goal is for each to learn from others about how.
• Saint Louis University: Leads and teaches the SLUStart I-Corp program funded by the NSF(Details below)
• the STLPartnership: Mentored 65 startups in 5 incubators, including the Helix Center over 3 years
• Saint Louis University Research: Product Lead on a phase 2 grant team in the NSF Convergence Accelerator developing educational-graphic content for the blind.

Chesterfield, MO, US

• Ken serves as a fractional CTO, Catalyst, and EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence) to a variety of corporations, startups, accelerators, incubators, and universities. Ken leads innovation efforts including idea generation.
• HEALTHCARE: "Signature Medical Groups" is a network of 130 surgeons with 35 locations/ practices.
• REAL ESTATE: "Selequity" a fintech focused on investor funding market on commercial real estate
• ENERGY: "Center Oil" is a 4 billion-dollar trading company providing gasoline and renewable fuels.
• DESIGN: "Populous" Leading global sports architecture firm.
• ELECTION: "KNOWink" voter and election management along with electronic poll book technology

Saint Louis, MO, US

• Adjunct Faculty in the MBA Entrepreneur program as part of Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business teaching the following classes.
• “Corporate Innovation”
• “Business Model Design with Lean Canvas"
• “Entrepreneurial Lifecycles from Dreams to Reality"
• “Ideas of Mass Disruption”

Saint Louis, MO, US

• Adjunct faculty focusing on teaching and mentoring entrepreneurial engineering students.
• . Design Thinking, a semester class required for freshman Engineering Students
• . Teach senior design class sessions on using customer discovery and design thinking to drive their final projects.
• . Co-taught a class in product road mapping and Life Cycle Cost Analysis
• . Led student teams of iScholars in a year-long “startup studio” to create products or technologies using design thinking, Biomimicry, and lean startup methods along with rapid prototyping of their ideas in the “Tinker.

Saint Louis, MO, US

Completed 82 cohorts (virtual and in-person, 750+ ideas/projects/startups, and1500+ participants.)* The SLUStart I-Corps program is funded by a grant from the NSF andmanaged by the SLU OVPR-RIG (Research Innovation Group): Lead participants through an innovation process based on customer discovery, problem-seeking, and defining customer values in the lean.

St Louis, MO, US

As the fractional CTO, Ken’s role began at the inception of the startup integrating ideas while leading the design and development of the product with external and internal teams while assisting the evolution of the business model. The MVP of the SAS product for Selequity was delivered along with its first revenue within 6 months.Selequity is an online.

New York, NY, US

Rejoined HOK, with a mandate to keep HOK and its diverse clients 5 to 10 years ahead in innovation and advanced technology by creating new services and software products while leading the vision, strategy, design and delivery of a broad integrated knowledge ecosystem. As an entrepreneur, provided innovation and technology leadership through a vast array of.

Cambridge, England, GB

Served as the founding Executive Director and a technical leader of the non-profit industry-wide startup currently identified as the buildingSMART Alliance.The Alliance is a global effort by the building industry-defining a shared communication framework through software object models for the design, construction and management of buildings.As Executive.

New York, NY, US

My role included leading the design, development, and integration of software technologies globally across HOK..Projects included technology innovation work for clients such as AT&T (Pleasanton, CA), PG&E (San Francisco, CA), Smithsonian (Washington, DC), and Kajima Construction (Tokyo, Japan).A leader in the development of HOK DrawVision (1989 First in.

New York, NY, US

A Startup spun out of HOK to sell and support DrawVision the first 2D/3D object oriented building modeling and design system.

New York, NY, US

My career started in 1982 as an architect and software developer as part of a small team building the first 2D/3D database CAD computer-aided design and animation system for HOK called HOK Draw. As part of the development team, I was involved in the development of HOK Space, a building facilities space inventory system integrated with CAD and HOK Graph for.

Graduate Degree In Artificial Intelligence, Ai

Bachelor Of Architecture (B.Arch.), Architecture: Minor In Computer Science