Advisory Board
Kelly Arehart
Product Development Leader
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
April Bertram
Senior Business Development Director
GOJO Industries
Growth Innovation Leadership Council Member
Paul Campbell
Head of Digital Innovation
BAT
Growth Innovation Leadership Council Member
Since then, she has reinvented the GOJO innovation process, from the front end of innovation, to market and product development, through to strategic portfolio management. Most recently, April was tasked with creating new IoT business models in healthcare, commercial building and other core vertical GOJO markets. She develops and cultivates new partnerships in emerging ecosystems to support strategy execution.
April holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication and an Executive Masters of Business Administration. She has earned a GE Green Belt Six Sigma Certification, Innovation Engineering Black Belt Certification, a Certificate in Strategic Design Capability and the VentureWell Lean LaunchPad Facilitator. She has written a number of publications on product innovation and IoT, including several for the Frost & Sullivan Quarterly eBulletin.
Giovanni Carapelli
VP of Innovation
Site IQ LLC
Bob Daigle
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Rogers Corporation
Angela Femmer
Director, Competitive Positioning
Brewer Science
Growth Innovation Leadership Council Member
Early in my career, I had a variety of roles that included R&D, marketing and engineering management. Over the past 20 years, I’ve had P&L responsibility for two electronic materials businesses and accelerated
growth of these businesses by expanding markets served and adding new platforms via internal product development and selective acquisitions. At the corporate level, I led the strategy team and corporate development function and established global innovation centers to bring new growth platforms to the company.
What inspires you?
Enabling Growth
After earning her BS in Business Management from Bradley University, Angela worked for a label manufacturing company and earned her MBA from Webster University before joining Brewer Science in 2001.
Anna Foat
Global Digital Transformation Office
Sun Life Financial
Ken Hallman
Vice President, Global Marketing
Schneider Electric
Hayley Horn
Data Scientist, Insights, and Strategy
Interstate Batteries
What inspires you?
We’re a work in progress
Ken Hallman currently leads Schneider Electric’s global initiative to elevate the performance and return on investment of their new products. With a global presence in over 100 countries, Schneider Electric is the leader in power management – leading the digital transformation of energy management and automation in homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries.
Kapil Jain
Head of Business Strategy, Creative Cloud
Adobe
Mary Michael
Vice President, Patient Advocacy
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.
Judodine Nichols, Ph.D
Vice President
Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.
Nicole Paulk
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Innovation
Advocate Aurora Health
Mark Reilley
Director, Project Governance and Delivery
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Bernhard Reis
Senior Director, Corporate Strategy
Intel Corporation
Sibel Selcuk
Vice President, Global R&D and Strategy
Monument Chemical
William Singleton
Executive Director, Global Packaging Innovation & Sustainability
Mars, Incorporated
Heath A. Starr
Head of Product and Service Delivery Innovation
SAIC
Erik Throndsen
Executive Vice President, Beverage Technology & Innovation
Talking Rain
Julian Velázquez
Silicon Valley Innovation Center Leader
DuPont
Ruth Yomtoubian
Head of VSP Global Innovation Center
VSP Global
Giovanni Carapelli
VP of Innovation
Site IQ LLC
Mark Reilley
Director, Project Governance and Delivery
The Pew Charitable Trusts