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.
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Kevin de Caluwé
Senior Consultant
Kevin de Caluwé is a Senior Consultant at rInnovation Group. With a background in chemical engineering, service designing and market analysis, Kevin built his career in strategic innovation management at Bekaert, which is the world’s largest non-integrated steel wire manufacturer. In partnership with rInnovation group, he was one of the driving forces to introduce the D-I-A® and TMRO® principles in the company, and was at the forefront during the definition of Bekaert’s strategic innovation intent. For several years, he was responsible for the Discovery phase and early Incubation in Bekaert’s corporate innovation team and took a leading role in reducing the uncertainties on technical, market, resources and organizational level. During these years, Kevin built up a proven track record in identifying innovation opportunities in the automotive, construction and additive manufacturing industry and build up an extensive experience in interviewing industry thought leaders and experts in several technical domains.
For more than nine years, Kevin has been a business coach at Vlerick Business School, where he advises CEO’s and entrepreneurs in the development of strategic growth plans for their company during an executive course of 6 months. As a start-up mentor at Start-it @KBC, the biggest start-up accelerator in Belgium, he acts as mentor to start-up entrepreneurs, mainly on finding product market fit during their Discovery and Incubation phase. Additionally, as a trained facilitator, Kevin is often asked to lead creative or strategic brainstorm sessions, with internal and external participants.
Kevin gives guest lectures at the University of Manchester, University College of Ghent, University College of Brussels and Vlerick Business School, specifically on the topic of strategic innovation management and collaborative innovation. He obtained a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ghent and completed additional education in Innovation Management, Digital Transformation (both at Vlerick Business School) and Entrepreneurship at Flanders Business School.