CHRISTIAN RANGEN - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Advisory Board Member / / Professor
• Professor of Innovation Management
• Professor of Innovation Management at IMD

Bill Fischer is a Professor of Innovation Management at IMD. He co-founded and co-directs the IMD program on Driving Strategic Innovation, in cooperation with the Sloan School of Management at MIT and also writes a regular column for Forbes.com entitled "The Ideas Business". An engineer by training, American by citizenship, Bill has lived much of his life in Asia and Europe. He held a full-professorship and endowed chair on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1976-1998), first moved to China in 1980, and later became the President of the China Europe International Business School [CEIBS], in Shanghai (1997-1999). He has been awarded the Silver Magnolia award, Shanghai's highest award for foreigners contributing to the city's development, in 1999. He first joined IMD in 1990, and was part of the IMD team that developed the Managerial Deep Dive process for improved innovation conversations. His most recent books include: Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier has Changed the Way that Big Companies Transform [with Umberto Lago & Fang Liu], The Idea Hunter (2011) and Virtuoso Teams (2005) [both coauthored with Andy Boynton]. All of these books address issues of innovation and talent development and expression in a variety of organizational settings. Over the past few years, Bill has been mentioned by The Independent [U.K.], InnovationExcellence.com and InnovationManagement.com as one of the leading bloggers/tweeters on innovation. In 2013, Reinventing Giants, which addresses business model and corporate culture reinvention in a mature, commodity business, was short-listed for Thinkers50 "book of the year" award, and won a Silver medal at Axiom's silver medal annual book awards in 2014.

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder
• Member of the Board
• Co - Founder and Board Member at Engage / / Innovate

Elisabeth Øvstebø is Co-Founder and Board Member at Engage // Innovate. She has an extensive experience managing large-scale transformation projects. She is also an experienced business coach and change agent. She is the lead author of Dream Bigger - Your Innovation Sketchbook. Today, she spends most of her time running an early stage venture fund, Link Venture Capital

Holger Nils Pohl is one of the world's leading visual strategy facilitators and visual recorders. With the magic of his pens & iPad, he can make the most complex information easily understandable. His expertise is working with companies and management teams, helping them visualize, understand and communicate their strategy, innovation and change efforts. Holger's also highly experienced working with world-class, visual strategy tools, like the Business Model Canvas, Three Levels of Business Models and the Strategic Innovation Canvas. This allows him to facilitate high-level strategy workouts and strategic conversations. Holger helps clients around the world make strategy work better, thanks to his unique expertise. Holger also runs training programs, teaching people the skills and rekindling their confidence in their own ability to draw and work visually.

Job Titles:

• Partner

Ian Pallister brings deep experience and expertise in helping organizations make innovation happen. With over 25 years track record across a range of sectors including energy, high tech, life sciences and financial services, Ian helps organizations create new, innovative concepts and develop breakthrough ideas. Ian has deep content knowledge within the Innovation / Strategy / Business Transformation areas and brings this broad range of expertise to help his clients solve their complex strategic challenges. He had held senior positions in both boutique and large consulting firms. He was Global Head of the Palladium Innovation Practice, as well as Head of Europe for Strategos Inc., the renowned strategy and innovation consultancy founded by Gary Hamel.

Job Titles:

• Global Digital Marketing Manager / / Projects

Jolene Foo drives the digital content and marketing strategy for Engage//Innovate. She runs the day-to-day community, social media and marketing efforts. She also supports the digital communications of the X2 suite of companies - X2 Labs, X2 Inc, & X2 Innovation Center. Besides heading digital content development for E//I & X2, she also manages E//I's host of international projects and mentor X2 Labs Studio startups on digital marketing and branding. Jolene Foo runs the content and marketing strategy for Engage//Innovate. She brings years of experience in producing high quality content and has tackled a wide range of digital marketing projects for both fast-moving startups and multinational corporations.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• Professor at Columbia Business School
• Professor, Speaker at Columbia Business School / Author, Strategy Book of the Year 2013, "the End of Competitive Advantage"

Rita Gunther McGrath, a Professor at Columbia Business School, is regarded as one of the world's top experts on strategy and innovation with particular emphasis on developing sound strategy in uncertain and volatile environments. Her ideas are widely used by leading organizations throughout the world, who describe her thinking as sometimes provocative, but unfailingly stimulating. She fosters a fresh approach to strategy amongst those with whom she works.

Job Titles:

• Partner
• Partner / / Latin America

Roberto is an Executive with more than 18 years of experience in management positions in the areas of Marketing, Corporate Business Development, General Management and Consulting. Throughout his professional career, he has worked in multinational companies such as The Clorox Company, British American Tobacco and The Coca-Cola Company, and in leading regional companies in their industries such as Dos Pinos and Ingenio Magdalena. In 2016, he began his consulting activities under the Disrupta platform, advising Guatemalan, Costa Rican, Mexican and American companies. In May 2019, Roberto joined Engage // Innovate as a Partner, responsible for leading the company's operations in Latin America, and developing Strategy Tools, an open platform for strategy and innovation. Roberto heads Engage // Innovate's operations in Latin America and development of Strategy Tools in the region. He comes with more than 18 years of experience as a regional lead in multinational companies like The Clorox Company, British American Tobacco, and The Coca Cola Company.

Job Titles:

• Vice President, Executive Creative Director at Dolby Laboratories / Former Head of Global Design at Coca - Cola Company / Former Senior Industrial Designer at Apple ( 1986 - 2006 )