InnoCentive Management Team
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Craig Jones serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at InnoCentive. He is a 30 year veteran of the venture capital and private equity industry and has served as Chairman and Board member of many successful software and healthcare companies. Mr. Jones was most recently on the Board of Advisors and the first institutional investor of HealthDataInsights (sold to HMS Holdings for $400 million) and on the Board of Directors of TC3 Health (sold to Emdeon for over $100 million).
He has invested extensively in over 50 innovative companies, including those in the healthcare IT, healthcare services, SaaS, and internet sectors. For the past several years, Mr. He is also on the Board of Directors of Construction Software Tepatagonia shop ukchnologies and Chairman of the Board of eStudySite and National Research Institute.
Mr. Jones is the founding Managing Partner of Ticonderoga Capital where recent software investment successes include AFS Technologies (sold to Goldman Sachs) and IRTH (sold to Crane Group). Mr. Jones has overseen investments of over $400 million in his private equity career. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Dillon, Read Co. and head of its venture capital partnerships, a Vice President at Advent International, an associate at Centennial Ventures, and a management consultant with Bain Co. Mr. Jones is a graduate Magna Cum Laude of Harvard Law School. is a member of the Board and co founder of InnoCentive, Inc. He has been a strong advocate of open innovation and founded InnoCentive along with other ventures that create the advantages of open and networked organizational structures, including: YourEncore, Inc., Coalesix, Inc., Maaguzi, Inc., Indigo Biosystems, Seriosity, Chorus and Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.
Dr. Bingham currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fast Track Systems, Inc., and Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.; the advisory boards of the Center for Collective Intelligence (MIT), Phase Forward, Inc., YourEncore, Inc. and Coalesix, Inc. and as a member of the board of trustees of the Bankinter Foundation in Madrid.
He has lectured extensively at both national and international events and serves as a Visidiscount patagonia snap-t pulloverting Scholar at the National Center for Supercomputing Application at the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana. Dr. Bingham is also the former chairman of the Board of Editors of the Research Technology Management Journal. He was the recipient of the Economist s Fourth Annual Innovation Summit Business Process Award for InnoCentive. He was also named as one of Project Management Institute s Power 50 leaders in October 2005.
Dr. Bingham had over 25 years of experience with Eli Lilly and Company in pharmaceutical research and development, research acquisitions and collaborations, portfolio management and R strategic planning.
In April 2011, Dr. in organic chemistry from Stanford University.
Senior Vice President of Clients Partners
Jen Ling Liu leads InnoCentive s Client Services team, responsible for fulfilling commitments to customers by delivering on InnoCentive s portfolio of products, services, and solutions. She also spearheads InnoCentive s corporate development efforts, responsible for M and partnership initiatives. Under her leadership, InnoCentive s alliances ecosystem has expanded to include market leaders such as AARP Foundation, Booz Allen Hamilton, Environmental Defense Fund, Nature Publishing Group, Scientific American, and The Economist. Ms. Among her track record are the commercial launch of a Fidelity Investment subsidiary, the launch of Encyclopedia Britannica s first retail CD ROM, and strategic alliances with New York Times Digital, Wine Spectator, American Express Publishing, and Culinary Institute of America. Ms. Liu holds a BA in Physics from Harvard University and an MA in History from University of California, Berkeley.
Vice President of Finance
Rich Barletta joined InnoCentive in May 2002. From May 2002 to April 2012, he served as the corporate controller and his primary responsibilities included growing a robust accounting operations function in addition to facilities and human resource management. In May 2012, Mr. Barletta was appointed to the role of Vice President, Fipatagonia clothes store atlantanance where he assumes oversight of human resources, facilities, legalpatagonia outlet store eileen, finance, and accounting operations. Prior to joining InnoCentive, he was employed in various positions by Arthur Andersen LLP, a national public accounting firm, most recently having sepatagonia outlet store 1 adoberved as audit manager in the Hi Tech Prapatagonia guide jacket denim3ctice of the firm s Boston office, where he serviced both public and private companies with, among other things, M activities and several registration statement filings for initial public offerings. Mr. In her role at InnoCentive, Norah serves as Vice President of Marketing, responsible for all of InnoCentive s global marketing efforts. Prior to joining InnoCentive, Norah held other marketing management positions, including running the Demand Generation and Inside Sales team for Exact, a global IT software and services company, as well as, marketingpatagonia guide jacket denim2 roles at Constant Contact and Carat Worldwide. Ms. McDonald holds a BA in International Business from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MBA from Marquette University.
Vice President Business Development, North America
Steve is a new product innovation professional with 20 years of Product Development, Consulting and management experience bringing innovations to the marketplace. His experience spans sales, technical, engineering and management responsibilities. With InnoCentive since 2009, his role includes leading the US Commercial business development team in delivering open and collaborative innovation tools and methodologies within its commercial clients. He holds a BS in Physics from Taylor University and an MBA from the University of Cincinnati. Mr. For nearly 30 years, he has lead teams in building new businesses and best practices within Fortune 100 companies and federal, state and local governments. Mr. Fredrickson has worked with government teams acrpatagonia guide jacket denim1oss Europe, Asia, and North and South America in defining key innovation priorities and delivering superior results. Today, he leads a team of professionals at InnoCentive whose mission is to help governments identify and implement new strategies and solutions for using open innovation and InnoCentive patagonia guide jacket denim0s proven methodology of Challenge Driven Innovation to optimize public spending and accelerate innovation into the government initiatives and programs.
Mr. Fredrickson has been a frequent spatagonia everlong review 752bdpeaker at global innovation forums and has been a guest lecturer at The Open Innovation Global Forum in Korea, PDMA s annual conferences, Siemens Open Innovation conference, MIT s Sloan School of Management, The King s College in London, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Mpatagonia guide jacket deniminnesota patagonia guide jacket expressMedical Devices Conference, International Integrated Oil Conference, and to other educational institutions studyipatagonia guide jacket in a packetng innovation best practices.
Vice President Business Development, Canada, Pacific Northwest Global Nonprofits
Siobhn Gibney Gomis is responsible for business development and sales in Canada, the Pacific Northwest, and to non profits globally. Through her previous role as Senior Director of Operations for InnoCentive s Grand Challenges practice, she has extensive experience leading custom challenge programs. Ms Gibney Gomis joined InnoCentive through its acquisition of London startup OmniCompete, wherepatagonia guide pants dress she was Director of Operations Marketing. Prior to these appointments, she worked in communications and policy research in London and Brussels. Ms Gibney Gomis has spoken on open innovation at Cass Business School, LSE and the World Innovation Convention, and frequently contributes to open innovation blogs. She holds a BA (Hons) from Queen s University and an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science
Vice President Business Development, EMEA
Steven Drew leads the Sales and Business Development activities of InnoCentive in Europe. Before joining InnoCentive, Steven headed the UK and North Europe operations of Invention Machine (recently acquired by IHS Inc), a leading provider of enterprise innovation research software and problem solving methodology. Steven holds a BSC (Hons) in Business from Plymouth University, UK.
