About the Workshop
Faculty
 Leslie
Kulis
Leslie is a General Manager of Global New
Product Development for the Building Products
division of Armstrong World Industries, a global
leader in the design and manufacture of floors,
ceilings and cabinets. Leslie has worked on
implementing a structured approach to the fuzzy
front end and it has been successfully used of
the last eight years in geographies around the
globe.
 Geoff
Waite
Geoff
has been active in R&D for over 20 years,
currently as Vice President of Sagentia Inc,
focusing on the “art and science” of innovation
and opportunity discovery. Prior to Sagentia,
Geoff worked in various R&D and technology
consulting roles for Warwick university, Rover
Group and PA Technology.
 Simon
Karger
Director of Innovation & Technology Management
for Sagentia Inc., Simon has been consulting at
the intersection of business and technology for
over 7 years, formerly with Arthur D. Little.
Simon’s expertise is in identifying product and
business opportunities to increase innovation
capability.
 Doug
Wilson
Doug Wilson is VP Chemicals, Materials, Energy
for Sagentia Inc. Doug’s specialty is in team
and individual creativity development. He has
spent over 20 years in new business development
in the field of advanced materials across a wide
variety of industries and is also a certified
practitioner of the Herrmann Brain Dominance
psychometric profiling tool.
 Dan
Edwards
Dan began his career in Engineering
(Rolls-Royce) and more recently developed a
passion for innovation and consumer marketing.
He supports both consumer-industry and
medical-industry clients in the discovery and
commercialization of new products, services and
businesses and coaches several executives in the
management of innovation within Fortune 500
companies.
“PepsiCo has lots of
innovation going on, and we needed a way to see what it all added up
to. Dan's guidance helped us create a practical tool to understand
and manage our total innovation portfolio, quickly and
cost-effectively. The new perspectives… have changed how and where
we direct our innovation resources.”
Fiona McAnena
VP, Innovation
PepsiCo
“Our relationship
with Sagentia has been instrumental in the development and
realization of innovative and exciting new products.”
Frank Martin
CEO
Hornby
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