Blog Team
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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Tom Venable
Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing
As the Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Tom leads InnoCentive’s go-to-market strategy and revenue generation activities. Previously he served as the Senior Vice President of Sales for Digital River, Inc., and prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development for the Expense Network division of Gelco Information Network. Tom started his high tech career in the mid 1980s selling e-mail systems to corporate America. Now, when the entire world uses email as a primary communications tool, he sees InnoCentive and Open Innovation in a similar light. Just like email, in 15 years, we will all be asking ourselves “how did we ever live without this?”
He holds an economics degree from the University of Minnesota and resides in Eden Prairie, MN with his wife Ginger and their three teenagers. In addition to having a passion for web-based business models, Tom is very active in his community and youth athletic programs and currently serves as the President of the Eden Prairie Youth Football Association. With whatever time he has left, he is an avid scuba diver; downhill Skier and boater on Lake Minnetonka. Tom considers himself a true road warrior, logging over 150K miles per year in his business and family travels.
David Ritter
Chief Technology Officer
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| 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. Read all posts by David Ritter |
Lisa Reinhold
Vice President of Client Services
Lisa Reinhold is Vice President of Client Services. She leads InnoCentive’s Professional Services Practice and manages all aspects of product delivery and support. Lisa comes to InnoCentive from Brainshark, Inc, an on-demand rich media communications company. As VP of Brainshark’s Professional Services organization she led their technical support, client success and professional service teams. Prior to Brainshark, Lisa was the VP of Client Support & Services - Document Management Division at Hummingbird Ltd. Reinhold received a B.S.B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Florida. She lives in Chelmsford, MA with her husband Jim and seven children who keep her on her toes at all times. To stay in shape, she practices TaeKwonDo with her 8-year old son and if she has a free moment, she spends it reading and enjoying the outdoors.
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