Board of Directors
Mike Turillo: Chairman of the Board
Previously, Mr. Turillo served on the International Management Committee and as a senior partner of KPMG International. At KPMG, he was Chief Knowledge Officer, building the firm’s first global knowledge exchange network serving 165,000 professionals in 135 countries.
Larry Huston: Vice Chairman of the Board
The former Vice President of Innovation at Procter & Gamble, who led “Connect+Develop,” arguably the most successful Open Innovation program yet developed. This system originated $10 billion of “not developed here” revenues over a 5-year period. Larry’s unique approach to Innovation has been presented in the Harvard Business Review, CNBC, hundreds of magazine articles, and top-selling business books such as Mavericks at Work and Wikinomics. A Wharton Fellow, Larry teaches innovation at Wharton’s Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Chairman Emeritus of the IBM Academy of Technology, Irving also works as a visiting Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, where he is focused on how information technology is helping transform business organizations and the institutions of society. He also served on and later co-chaired the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee from 1997 to 2001, and was a founding member of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council in 1986. He is also a former member of University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratories and of the Board of Overseers for Fermilab. A few years ago, Mr. Wladawsky-Berger was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has an M.S. and Ph. D. in physics from the University of Chicago.
George Lauro
25 years experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive, and venture capitalist. He has been a Board member of 17 public and private companies, was Managing Director at Techfarm Ventures in Silicon Valley and was a Wasserstein Perella Partner. He opened, built and managed Wasserstein’s west coast technology investing office in Palo Alto, led and syndicated 15 VC financing rounds and LBO control deals. As a VC, he served as Interim CEO, raised over $100M equity financing for portfolio companies, and was involved in M&A transactions exceeding $1B in combined value. He began his career designing inertial guidance systems at MIT/Draper Lab and Astronautics Corp, attended Brown (BSEE), Wharton (MBA) and MIT (graduate studies in Aeronautical Engineering) and holds 23 patents in inertial guidance GPS and RF devices.
Doug Schaedler
CEO of inno360, Doug most recently served as President and CEO of Innovaro, Inc. While there, Mr. Schaedler oversaw the growth of the IP licensing group and had oversight for the successful completion of over 100 licensing transactions globally. He has significant startup and capital raising experience, having founded two internet-based consumer crowd-sourcing businesses. Mr. Schaedler holds an M.B.A in finance and economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.A. in economics from Tufts University; he is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
