E. Peng, MBA
Asia Consulting Associate
E, Peng, also known as "Roc" in international community, is a seasoned consultant, practitioner and scholar on innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, with over 10 years of work experience in pursuit of innovation excellence.
Roc is the Chief Representative, Greater China of rInnovation Group. Roc also teaches graduate students at Sun Yat-sen University on entrepreneurship and Enterprise Innovation Management. Before his current position, he worked for Accenture in the U.S. and China, GE Corporate U.S., Oracle China and Beijing Beida Jade Bird on various roles related to innovation team and project management. Roc has provided professional innovation management and technology training and consulting services to Fortunate 500 companies and large NGOs as well as small firms across multiple industries on strategic planning, system integration and innovation management projects. The clients he has serviced are, among others, China Mobile, Best Buy U.S., China Construction Bank, Bureau of Shanghai Worldexpo Coordination, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone Group, Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce. He is a senior member of the China Creative Studies Institute, Birds of a Feather Innovation Leaders Group and Toastmasters International, among many other professional organizations.
Roc earned his M.B.A. in radical innovation and corporate entrepreneurship from the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and a B.E. in fluid mechanics from University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He has co-authored two books, numerous papers and delivered presentations at seven premiere conferences internationally on topics covering business, IT, innovation, creativity and corporate entrepreneurship. Roc has travelled to nine countries and currently he is based in Shanghai, China.
About Us
We believe in the Hollywood model in our company design. We bring in our best resources for the task at hand. We have an orchestration team of subject matter experts, our founding advisors and our partners to ensure we stay focused on our objective of maturing the discipline of strategic innovation. With these resources and our extensive global network, we are well positioned to meet your strategic innovation needs.
Joanne Hyland
Founding Partner and President
As a founding partner in rInnovation, Joanne is working with major corporations to link innovation with strategy and to develop systems, leadership, and culture capabilities that drive growth and corporate renewal.
Ole Tangsgaard
Senior Consultant
Ole Tangsgaard is a Senior Consultant with the rInnovation Group. He has a solid experience with the D-I-A Methodology from his work on the Innovation Platforms at Grundfos. The Innovation Platforms were under the umbrella of the Grundfos Innovation Intent.
Monique Richard
Operations Manager
Monique is the Chief Operating Officer for the rInnovation Group, with 35 years of information technology management experience in the areas of organizational design as well as financial, project and innovation management. She oversees company operations.
Dr. Nick Colarelli
Founding Advisor
Dr. Nick Colarelli is the founding partner of Colarelli, Meyer & Associates of St. Louis, Missouri, a firm of organizational psychologists. For the past 25 years, his firm has specialized in planning and implementing radical change driven by technology, globalization, and other market forces.
Jeff Hovis
Partner
Jeff Hovis is a Partner and the content expert with the rInnovation Group and well versed in the D-I-A methodology for uncertainty reduction. He also leads Product Genesis, and is responsible for executive-level interface for innovation strategy client programs.
Dr. Jimmi Normann Kristiansen
Senior Consultant
Dr. Jimmi Normann Kristiansen is a Senior Consultant with the rInnovation Group and Associate Professor of Innovation Management at Aalborg University Business School, Denmark. Jimmi is a published author of academic literature.
E. Peng
Asia Consulting Associate
E. Peng, also known as "Roc" in international community, is a seasoned consultant, practitioner and scholar on innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, with over 10 years of work experience in pursuit of innovation excellence.
Dr. Mark P. Rice
Founding Advisor
Dr. Mark P. Rice is Provost at Babson College, and former Dean of the School of Business at Worcester Polytechnic Institute as well as former Murata Dean of F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. His research on corporate innovation and entrepreneurship has been widely published.
Rich Duncombe
Executive Advisor
Rich Duncombe is an Executive Advisor with the rInnovation Group and a proven executive to drive growth and launch new businesses within Fortune 50 technology companies. He is passionate about catalyzing innovation from concept to reality.
Kevin de Caluwé
Senior Consultant
Kevin de Caluwé is a Senior Consultant at rInnovation Group. Kevin has a background in chemical engineering, service design and market analysis, which he used to build his career in Strategic innovation at Bekaert, which is the world's largest non-integrated steel wire manufacturer.
Dr. Gina O'Connor
Founding Advisor
Dr. O’Connor is Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College and Founding Advisor at rInnovation Group. She is a key figure in strategic innovation research, where she has delivered great impact for the past three decades.