Michael Tomczyk is an authority on best practices & strategies for developing and promoting radical/disruptive innovations. He enjoys helping startup ventures engaged in innovative technologies and applications that are helping to improve the world. He is currently on the launch team of a fintech company & a blockchain venture.Michael is a world class innovator who not only develops innovations but also promotes innovation thru books, articles, interviews & speeches. Michael's new book is entitled NEO-INNOVATION: Ideas and Tools to Compete in a New Era (Springer, Nov. 2024). His next 2 books will be 1) an autobiography & 2) a book on the future of medicine.Link to Book:https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-74303-0His book presents new approaches needed to compete, survive and succeed in the post-pandemic "Neoworld." Michael is scheduling a limited number of workshops and speeches based on his new book.Michael has been called the "marketing father" of the home computer for his role guiding the development and launch of the Commodore VIC-20, the first million-seller computer. He has also been involved as a business leader and entrepreneur in nanotechnology, biosciences/gene therapy and most recently, fintech/blockchain. Michael served 18 years as Managing Director of innovation research initiatives at the Wharton School (Emerging Technologies Mgmt. Research Program, Mack Center & Mack Institute for Innovation Management). He was a founding member of the UPENN Medical School Translational Medicine Committee and lectured in the Wharton Executive Education program. He also served on the Advanced Computing advisory group at Temple Univ. and served 3 years as Innovator in Residence at Villanova University (ICE Institute). He served on the advisory board of VIGAMUS in Rome.In addition to his new book (NEO-INNOVATION), his books include: NANOINNOVATION: What Every Manager Needs to Know (Wiley, 2016) and The Home Computer Wars (1985). He contributed a chapter to the 2020 futurist book, AFTERSHOCK.Michael holds an MBA from UCLA, a Master's Degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in literature & journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He served as a captain in the U.S. Army, as an airborne officer at Ft Bragg with overseas tours in Vietnam & Korea. He was awarded the Bronze Star, Army Commendation Medal & Airborne Badge.
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