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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Ole Tangsgaard
Principal Consultant
Ole Tangsgaard is a Principal 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. Ole worked in partnership with rInnovation Group from 2009 to 2014 to ensure successful implementation of the D-I-A methodology and tools. The initial focus was for the Innovation Platforms, followed by other areas of the Grundfos organization where relevant.
In addition to his role as the D-I-A expert at Grundfos, Ole identified and drove Innovation Opportunities in Discovery and served as the Strategic Coach for Discovery Opportunities and Incubation Projects within the Innovation Platforms. Ole also led the development of an Innovation Dash Board and the Opportunity Engine that was create to be the repository of Ideas and Innovation Opportunities.
Ole is mechanical engineering with an MBA in Change Management. He has been working for mature market leading international companies throughout his career with responsibilities spanning from engineering at LEGO to Business Development and Product Management at Grundfos and Condair.