Gregory N. Polletta Email & Phone Number

iGNITIATE ( www.iGNITIATE.com ) is where firms come to uncover, design and launch new, game changing products & services born from design thinking led, R&D efforts, coupled with continual innovation leadership training to sustain a corporate culture of breakthroughs. iGNITIATE, utilizes our focused "strategize, sketch & ship", new product development model.

• gregorysung ( www.gregorysung.com ) the design brand represents the relationship between parent manufacturers - uppercase, and the child creator mindset - lowercase, as the openess of the child eye can in fact create a.
• international products designed for firms such as MAGIS:itlay, ROCHE BOBOIS:paris, E-MY, PHILIPS DE PURY:usa, CRISTINA GRAJALES:usa, GUZZINI:itlay, ATC:guatemala, LONDON DESIGN COUNCIL:uk, BANNANA REPUBLIC:usa.
• numerous interviews, articles, and profiles in international design and architecture magazine publications
• industry awards including: best of ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST; best of ELLE DECOR magazine; an INDEX design nomination for SHINE-ON with ATC and the government of guatemala; TL magazine netherlands, international design duo.

• AWARDS:
• Most Inspiring Professor - ENPC Executive & PhD Engineering/MBA Program for "New Product Design & Development for International Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship" https://bit.ly/36JoAkJSELECTED PROGRAMS INCLUDE:
• Harvard Master in Design Engineering Program - www.mde.harvard.edu
• ESB École Supérieure du Bois PhD Program for New Product Development - www.esb-campus.fr
• ENPC Doctoral Engineering PhD/MBA Program: Paris, France - www.enpcmbaparis.com
• d.School @ Paris Tech: Paris France: - www.dschool.fr/en/experts

• SELECTED LECTURE SERIES & INDUSTRY PANELS:
• Research & Development & Design For Radical Innovation Breakthroughs: Harvard MDE + Harvard GDS + Harvard SEAS Program: Boston, USA
• Igniting The Design Mindset In 'New Normal' Design & Innovation Efforts: University of Bologna Italy's Advanced Design Unit
• Open Innovation Summit: How Design, Design Thinking And The Da Vinci Mindset Radically Effects Open Innovation Success: Berlin, Germany
• Innovation Live: Leveraging The Forza Of Design Thinking To Manifest Breakthroughs: Barcelona, Spain
• The CLIO Awards: New York NY https://clios.com/clio_juror/nojs/1449

Joining Damian Mogavero 1yr before the formal founding of Avero in 1998 and working with the team at Avero through the firms several successful rounds of venture financing and through the v2.0 launch of Avero's Slingshot system responsibilities included: designing and developing the companies product lines, product requirements & coordinating product.

At the Xerox PARC Labs the the focus was detailed product design for MobileDoc - a P2P and Internet based system for beta level smart phones, two-way pagers and some of the worlds first personal Digital Assistant devices. MobileDoc was a fully integrated DropBox platform with PayPal functionality in 1998, a full 8yrs before DropBox ( or any such firm ) was.

Again, this was a 1st member assignment to a new 10 person team at CertCo / Banker Trust ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certco_%28financial_services%29 ) launching Acquire - an internet based micropayment system with the capability to support <1 cent transactions and electronic bill delivery 3yrs before PayPal's efforts. I came to join the founder, Peter.

Again, it was a 1st in opportunity, this time as the lead member of a digital payments based research and development project at The American Management Systems AMSCAT Labs ( http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Management_Systems ) resulting in a digital micropayment system concept & system architecture, patent application & client trial implementations.

1st of 5 people in a new business unit of of American Management Systems ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Management_Systems ) and THE LINK team - the first statewide integrated child welfare system in the US. Working directly with Connecticut Department of Children and Family directors to create strategic direction, complex user requirements issues.

Master'S Degree, Ms Design

• Full scholarship - Negley Flinn Charitable Trust for Education • Recipient: Tobias Rehberger, Artexperience Scholarship.

Medieval History - Selwyn College

Concentration: Philosophy of Science and Medieval Society.

Bs, Information Systems Part Of The Engineering For Manufacturing Program

• President/Captain Speech & Debate Society: created top 10 nationally APDA ranked team in 3 yrs. • Undergraduate Thesis: Utilising.