As an accomplished new business scout and manager, versatile scientist, and practitioner of open innovation, I connect external needs to internal capabilities, sources of external innovation to internal needs, and link internal stakeholders with each other to drive business growth both in the spaces "between" and outside the current businesses.I have significant industrial experience in synthesizing and characterizing inorganic materials from supported catalysts to novel molecular sieves with additional experience in catalyst evaluation, high-throughput methods, solid-state synthesis, molecular modeling, and experimental design.Key competencies include: systematic market exploration, innovative problem solving, networking, project management, creative organization, fluent German