Blog Team
Alph Bingham, Ph.D
Founder and Member, Board of Directors
Dr. Bingham is a member of the Board and co-founder of InnoCentive, Inc. He has been a strong advocate of open innovation and founded InnoCentive, Inc., 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.
He 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 Visiting Scholar at the National Center for Supercomputing Application at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is also the former chairman of the Board of Editors of the Research Technology Management Journal. Dr. Bingham 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&D strategic planning. Among others, he held positions as Managing Director of the Mont-Saint-Guibert Development Centre, executive director of project and portfolio management, vice-president of sourcing innovation, vice-president of e.Lilly and vice-president of R&D strategy.
During his career he was instrumental in creating and developing Eli Lilly’s portfolio management process as well as establishing the divisions of Research Acquisitions, the Office of Alliance Management and e.Lilly, a unit for business innovation.
Dr. Bingham received a B.S. in chemistry from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Stanford University.
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Steve Bonadio
Senior Marketing Director
Steve Bonadio is Senior Marketing Director at InnoCentive. He leads global marketing and focuses on product marketing, core messaging, demand generation, pipeline development, and sales enablement. Prior to InnoCentive, Steve held senior-level marketing positions with Softscape and Oracle. He also has held senior industry analyst positions with Meta Group (acquired by Gartner) and Hurwitz Group. Steve received a degree in economics and business from Lafayette College. When he’s not thinking of creative new ways to espouse the virtues of InnoCentive’s unique Challenge Driven Innovation approach, Steve and his family enjoy skiing, golf, and going to the beach.
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Gabriel Eichler
Director of Consulting Products and Services
Gabriel is our Director of Consulting Products and Services. In that role he helps build Seekers’ capabilities to leverage Challenge-Driven Innovation. He was one of the primary contributors to the development of InnoCentive@Work, the Prodigy and the ONRAMP training services. Gabriel’s scientific expertise, coupled with his consulting experience, provides invaluable insight and guidance to InnoCentive’s clients. Prior to coming to InnoCentive Gabriel spent time at McKinsey and Co. where he served companies in the healthcare industry. He holds a Ph.D. In bioinformatics from Boston University and the National Cancer Institute and has been published in numerous journals, including PNAS, Oncogene and Bioinformatics, on genomics, metabolomics and technology for personalized medicine. In his free time he enjoys traveling, bicycling, cooking and spending time with his wife and son.
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Connie French
Marketing Director
Connie French is Marketing Director at InnoCentive. In this role, she is responsible for PR, Social Media, Seeker Marketing, Challenge Marketing, and Partner Marketing. Prior to InnoCentive, Connie was Director of Marketing at Vertical Communications and, previous to Vertical, spent several years in Product and Corporate Marketing at IBM. Connie holds a B.S. in Marketing from Miami University. She lives in Boston and enjoys skiing, playing tennis and making forts with her two children.
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David Ritter
Chief Technology Officer
As CTO, David oversees the Product Management, R&D, and IT Operations functions. He is responsible for driving the definition of InnoCentive product offerings, and the development and operation of the technology platform through which the products are delivered. David previously spent 8 years at The Boston Consulting Group, the last 6 years as a Partner and Managing Director in the firm’s High Technology and Information Technology Practice Areas. Previously, David served as the CTO for VerticalNet, Inc. and prior to that, he was Vice President of Engineering for Firefly, Inc., where he led the development of Passport, a distributed authorization system for the Internet (the basis for Microsoft Passport after Firefly was acquired by Microsoft). David also previously served as Director of Engineering for Oracle Corporation’s OLAP Products Division and studied Computer Science and Theater at the Georgia Institute of Technology. David is an avid scuba diver and poker player and actually participated in the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2007. He has also managed to assemble one of the very few surviving complete runs of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, which was published from 1923 – 1954.
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Dwayne Spradlin
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dwayne Spradlin is President and Chief Executive Officer of InnoCentive. Previously, he served as President at business information company Hoover’s Inc., and was President and Chief Operating Officer of Starcite, Inc., an online meeting and events planning business. Dwayne served as Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for Verticalnet Inc., the world’s largest portfolio of online industry marketplaces and was a Director in the E-Business and Emerging Technology practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He resides in Southlake, TX with his wife and three sons where he juggles the responsibilities of a traveling CEO with successfully getting his boys to their tennis matches, soccer and football matches on weekends, while never missing any of the games. In his limited spare time, Dwayne builds and maintains PCs at home and indulges in the family addiction of SciFi television. Current favorites: BattleStar Galactica and Heroes.
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