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Managing Lead for an on-demand solutions group focused on change delivery, intelligence, progress and future benefits quickly for clients and partners. In doing so, Cygnus Sprints is disrupting the management consulting and advisory industry by delivering more experience, faster delivery, better value, superior breadth of disciplines and more purposeful approaches than the incumbents. Cygnus Sprints is powered and backed behind the global talent force of Grey Swan Guild as one of 12 value-driving ventures.We are focused on seven types of sprints:- Sensemaking (to navigate uncertainty and complexity)- Scanning (to spot & synthesize signals and forces)- Innovation (to pave way for new impact/value)- Strategy (to develop and validate direction)- Discovery (to build out scenarios and backcast to action)- Transformation (to facilitate culture/process/implementation) - Intro (to catalyze and educate on the most relevant challenges)Why we're better: 6x the breadth, 4x the experience, 3x the speed at 2x the value, plus we're the nice people that give a damn about the world and don't want to sell you more hours

New York, Ny, Us

Providing market research and strategic insights to global clients in multiple industry sectors.

Iconic Mindset was founded in 2018 with a laser-focused mission to bridge the Enterprise – Startup gap and help Enterprises access innovative solutions from Startups, while helping Startups strategize their Product Fit and GTM (Go-To-Market) Execution.Investors play a crucial and strategic role in enabling the Startups financially to invest in the market of their right fit, to grow and scale.

EnerChemTek is a global consulting firm that uses only seasoned senior professionals to provide a variety of strategic services to the chemicals and energy industries. Brought in to add innovation, scenario planning, and IP management capabilities to EnerChemTek's existing offerings in:* Market Research* Process Analysis/Economics* Technology Forecasting* Data Science* Web-Based Training

Business development, strategic planning, IP management, innovation management, and R&D management advisory services for technology-intensive companies, startups, and research institutions worldwide.▪ Created an innovation plan for a global engineering firm’s technology incubator leading to a 50% increase in medical device software sales. * Leveraged IP in medical device design software into the vibration control market resulting in $50 million increase in annual revenue with no increase in R&D expense▪ Advised a medical device startup to leverage its medical device IP into the consumer electronics arena resulting in rapid venture investment and a 90% reduction in time to market.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Advising the company on the commercial translation of R & D Innovation efforts: * Focus on Healthcare, Robotics, and Regional Economic Development via Public-Private Partnerships * Specific strategic expertise in scenario planning, design thinking, market analysis, IP management, and R&D management

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Recruited to drive growth for an incipient innovation management, IP management, and IP software development practice.• Implemented a ROI-based sales approach resulting 25% per year sales growth.• Developed pricing models leading to increased market attraction and a 90+% client renewal rate. • Co-created functional link between IP management and innovation management software and SaaS implementation to produce a new genre of application with minimal IBM resource investment.• Sold, led, and delivered a major IP/trade secret and innovation management project to a large Asian chemicals conglomerate allowing them to reverse losses and maintain 90% of supply chain partnerships.• Implemented an IP management and innovation culture and system inside a global engineering management firm resulting in a 2X increase in patent applications and a 75% increase in licensing income.• Named IBM Business and Technical Leader.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Brought in to establish a technology commercialization strategy for a non-research-intensive campus of the University of Missouri.• Implemented an industrial cooperative R&D approach that garnered majority faculty acceptance and a 100% increase in invention disclosures in one year.• Developed guidelines with the VP of Advancement to establish an alumni investment fund for promising technologies

Chicago, Il, Us

Recruited to merge Strategos’ existing innovation consultancy with new parent company’s IP management capabilities.• Created a scenario-based IP management strategy for a global energy company resulting in stable profitability in an uncertain regulatory environment. • Developed thought leadership on using IP and innovation management and scenario planning to simultaneously manage commoditization and new business creation.

Hired to improve communication between and performance of the technical and commercial parts of the company.• Negotiated a joint development and manufacturing agreement with a major global fluoropolymer producer resulting in millions of dollars of additional investment. • Negotiated an agreement with a major medical device producer to assist in the development of next-generation cardiac ablation catheters.• Implemented innovation processes leading to the creation of a micro-actuator technology platform and a leading position in haptic devices while attracting $10 million in corporate investment.

Parsippany, Nj, Us

Brought in to develop consulting capabilities in IP management, innovation management, and scenario planning to leverage existing capabilities in chemical industry market research and process analysis.• Implemented an innovation management system for a major petrochemical company resulting in a profitable new channel in the area of bandage/patch-based drug delivery systems. • Employed ideation, technology roadmapping, and scenario methodologies to develop new markets for specialty isocyanates for one of the world’s largest chemical companies.• Sold, led, and facilitated a series of innovation and evaluation workshops for an agricultural chemical company investigating the use of biotechnology for the production of petrochemicals resulting in the saving of $80 million in R&D costs.

Hired to leverage research base in techno-economics/markets to create a sustainable technology management and innovation management consulting practice.• Increased average size of consulting projects by 300% in three years.• Implemented a scenario planning system in a global consumer electronics company resulting in a flexible R&D investment strategy and increasing market share and profitability. • Leveraged techno-economic research base and innovation management methodologies to realign the R&D program of a major corporate Central Research Lab resulting in a 2X increase in new product concepts and prototypes.• Trained executives globally in the use of virtual team-based innovation and scenario planning workshop methods resulting in dramatic improvements in the ability to embrace both commoditization and innovation.• Led efforts to use our thought-leadership base repeatedly to win substantial consulting contracts over Big 4 competition.

Ba (Honors), Chemistry

Education record

Phd, Chemistry