Experience

L Marks

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Innovation Partner

  • Aug 2022 - 1 year 5 months

  London, United Kingdom The Inovo Group is now part of the L Marks family. L Marks has a well-established consulting business in opportunity incubation, new business formation, and corporate venturing. Inovo continues to support our clients' needs at the front-end of innovation. This includes innovation strategy, domaining, futuring, innovation system design-build, and strategic opportunity discovery.



The Inovo Group

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and Managing Partner

  • 2001 - Aug 2022

  Ann Arbor, Michigan Inovo is a strategic innovation consulting firm. Our clients use technology as a source of innovation and competitive advantage to transform their business. Inovo serves as a collaboration partner and guide to help clients envision future scenarios; create strategic and technology-enabled opportunities; build new competencies; and transform their business models, organization and culture.



The Inovo Institute

• Principal and Co-Founder

  • 2006 - 2018

  Ann Arbor, Michigan Advancing the economic prosperity and social well-being of society through the promotion of innovation in all endeavors - for individuals, organizations and the greater community.



MichBio

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member of the Board of Directors

  • 2000 - 2003

  Ann Arbor, Michigan Helped guide the launch of MichBio (formerly the Michigan Biosciences Industry Association - MBIA)



Cognitive Bionics, Inc.

• Co-founder and Managing Partner

  • 1998 - 2001

  Ann Arbor, Michigan Established a multi-million dollar business serving the life science and high-tech industries with a multi-disciplinary approach to scientific computing. Merged with Exponential Innovation, LLC to become Inovo Technologies, Inc.



ESI an MKS Brand

• Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technology Manager

  • Nov 1997 - 1998

  Ann Arbor, Michigan Led business and technology efforts to advance the road map for model-based machine vision.



Applied Intelligent Systems, Inc. (AISI)

• Lead Engineer

  • Dec 1996 - Nov 1997

  Ann Arbor, Michigan Managed software engineering efforts and led customer-facing product development for the semiconductor industry. Applied Intelligent Systems, Inc. (AISI) was acquired by Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (ESI) for $85M in November 1997.



SupplyTech

• Sr. Manager

  • 1996 - Dec 1996

  Ann Arbor, Michigan Led software development, test, and support teams for a family of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) products. SupplyTech was acquired by Harbinger (HRBC) of Atlanta, GA. for $44M in December 1996.



Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Engineer

  • 1991 - 1996

  Arlington Heights, Illinois Participated in the early days and crazy growth of digital cell phone infrastructure. Our team served the European market, growing from 50 to 500 people as the cellular industry took off. It was a true intrapreneurial experience.



University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant

  • 1989 - 1991

  Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area Created new machine learning algorithms for automated vehicle guidance. Research program sponsored by NASA's Ames Research Center (Moffet Field, CA). Thesis Advisor: Benjamin Wah, PhD.



Synthetic Vision Systems, Inc. (SVS)

• Software Engineer

  • 1989 - 1989

  Ann Arbor, Michigan Designed and implemented software and tools to improve the accuracy of machine vision systems. SVS was acquired by VIEW Engineering.



Betatronics, Inc.

• Software Engineer

  • 1987 - 1989

  Ann Arbor, Michigan Designed and developed software for the automotive manufacturing industry.



A&S Software, Inc.

• Partner and Co-Founder

  • 1984 - 1987

  Livonia, Michigan A startup dedicated to producing educational hardware and software systems sold to high schools throughout the Midwest. Sold the company in 1987 to pursue college studies.