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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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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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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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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Steve Shapiro
Vice President of Strategic Consulting
Steve is Vice President of Strategic Consulting at InnoCentive, tasked with building InnoCentive’s consulting business. Steve is the founder of the 24/7 Innovation Group, a management research and education company focused on helping organizations be more competitive through organic growth, innovation, and improved productivity. Prior to founding 24/7, Steve spent 15 years with the international consulting firm Accenture, where he established and led their Global Process Excellence Practice, delivering innovation training to 20,000 consultants. In 2001 he left the management consulting world to write his first book, “24/7 Innovation”. When he’s not innovating, Stephen enjoys scuba diving, playing the tenor saxophone, and red wine. However, his favorite pastime is traveling the world. To date he has given speeches in 38 countries and have visited countless others. Favorite destinations include Thailand, Monte Carlo, and Port Douglas Australia.
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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.
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