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Management
Dwayne Spradlin
President, and Chief Executive Officer
Dwayne Spradlin is President and Chief Executive Officer of InnoCentive, Inc. Previously, he served as President at business information company Hoover's Inc. and before that he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Starcite, Inc., an online meeting and events planning business. Spradlin served as Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for Verticalnet Inc., the world's largest portfolio of online industry marketplaces. Earlier, Spradlin 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.
Robert E. Kinney
Chief Financial Officer, and Vice President of Operations
Robert Kinney is responsible for the operational and financial leadership of InnoCentive. His responsibilities include assisting the team with strategy, vision and execution as well as responsibility for information technology, human resources, facilities, legal, finance and accounting.
Mr. Kinney has over 20 years of financial and operational experience in both public and private companies. Mr. Kinney began his career in commercial lending with Bank of Boston. Subsequent, positions included EVP and CFO of Analytical Technology (ATI) (successor to Orion Research), a leading international analytical instrument company, CFO of Transition Systems (TSI), a publicly traded healthcare software company, CFO of Excelergy Corporation, a software company in the deregulated energy market, and CFO of Mosaic Technologies, a bio-tech start-up focused on DNA technology. As CFO of ATI, Mr. Kinney help grow that company from $30 million in revenue to over $125 million with operations in six countries. Mr. Kinney's transactional experience, in addition to managing numerous acquisitions and divestitures, includes leading TSI's 1996 IPO which raised more than $125 million, the $100 million sale of ATI to Thermo Electron in 1995, and the going-private transaction of Orion Research.
Mr. Kinney holds a B.S. from the University of Maine and a M.B.A from the Pennsylvania State University. He is active in professional associations such as the Financial Executive Institute and the IMA.
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. In this role he advised Fortune 50 companies on product and technology strategy, eCommerce, software development process, and achieving business value from IT.
Previously, David served as the CTO for VerticalNet, Inc., a pioneering public B2B company. 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, where he developed large-scale analytical database applications. David studied Computer Science and Theater at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Jon Fredrickson
Vice President of Sales
Jon is a studied practitioner and skilled innovation executive with InnoCentive, the global leader in Prize-Based Open Innovation. For the last 25 years Jon has led teams in building new businesses and business practices within Fortune 100 companies and in the new Web economy. Jon has worked with teams across Europe, Asia, North and South America delivering superior results for his employers.
Today, Jon leads a team of professionals at InnoCentive whose mission is to help companies identify and implement new strategies and solutions for innovating their businesses by using a global marketplace of intelligence. The InnoCentive marketplace is providing solutions to companies to rapidly introduce new products or services without the traditional risks of trial and failures inherent in R&D. This approach complements the investments that companies will continue to make in R&D.
Jon has been a frequent speaker at innovation forums and a guest lecturer this year at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Jon lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children.
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. Reinhold 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, Reinhold 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 family.
Bonnie Kiesling
Vice President of Marketing
Bonnie Kiesling is Vice President of Marketing at InnoCentive, Inc. In this role she is responsible for leading strategic brand building efforts, marketing communications and all aspects of product marketing.
Previously, Bonnie served as Senior Category Director for Health at Yahoo!, where she was responsible for the strategic development and management of this market category. Prior to Yahoo! she handled the product management for several product lines at Pfizer including Zantac, Sudafed and Lubriderm where she was responsible for overall profit delivery, strategic positioning, long term vision, and marketing execution. Earlier, Bonnie worked in the Global Marketing Group at Polaroid.
She holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.B.A. from Northeastern University. Bonnie resides in Boston's South End with her husband where they enjoy all the perks of city living.
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. He has since been featured in Newsweek, Investor's Business Daily, Entrepreneur Magazine, O - The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, and other prestigious publications. He is also the author of Goal-Free Living and The Little Book of BIG Innovation Ideas and he is the creator of the Innovation Personality Poker® system.
Steve has presented his own tried-and-tested formula for success to hundreds of thousands of people in 36 countries. Among the dozens of leading organizations he has advised are Staples, GE, BP, Johnson & Johnson, Fidelity Investments, Pearson Education, Nestlé, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Steve earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University.
Alpheus 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.