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Board of Directors
Dwayne Spradlin
President, and Chief Executive Officer
Dwayne Spradlin is President and Chief Executive Officer of InnoCentive, Inc. Previously, he served as President at business information company Hoover's Inc. and before that he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Starcite, Inc., an online meeting and events planning business. Spradlin served as Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for Verticalnet Inc., the world's largest portfolio of online industry marketplaces. Earlier, Spradlin was a Director in the E-Business and Emerging Technology practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He resides in Southlake, TX with his wife and three sons.
Alpheus Bingham, Ph.D
Founder and Member, Board of Directors
Dr. Bingham is a member of the Board and co-founder of InnoCentive, Inc. He has been a strong advocate of open innovation and founded InnoCentive, Inc., along with other ventures that create the advantages of open and networked organizational structures, including: YourEncore, Inc., Coalesix, Inc., Maaguzi, Inc., Indigo Biosystems, Seriosity, Chorus and Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fast Track Systems, Inc., and Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.; the advisory boards of the Center for Collective Intelligence (MIT), Phase Forward, Inc., YourEncore, Inc. and Coalesix, Inc. and as a member of the board of trustees of the Bankinter Foundation in Madrid.
He has lectured extensively at both national and international events and serves as a Visiting Scholar at the National Center for Supercomputing Application at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is also the former chairman of the Board of Editors of the Research Technology Management Journal. Dr. Bingham was the recipient of the Economist's Fourth Annual Innovation Summit "Business Process Award" for InnoCentive. He was also named as one of Project Management Institute's "Power 50" leaders in October 2005.
Dr. Bingham had over 25 years of experience with Eli Lilly and Company in pharmaceutical research and development, research acquisitions and collaborations, portfolio management and R&D strategic planning. Among others, he held positions as Managing Director of the Mont-Saint-Guibert Development Centre, executive director of project and portfolio management, vice-president of sourcing innovation, vice-president of e.Lilly and vice-president of R&D strategy.
During his career he was instrumental in creating and developing Eli Lilly's portfolio management process as well as establishing the divisions of Research Acquisitions, the Office of Alliance Management and e.Lilly, a unit for business innovation.
Dr. Bingham received a B.S. in chemistry from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Stanford University.
Darren J. Carroll
Chairman of the Board
Since 2005, Mr. Carroll has been Executive Director of New Ventures for Eli Lilly, and is responsible for all venture capital investments made by Eli Lilly, as well as development and incubation of new business models that have the potential to transform the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to that, Mr. Carroll was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Original InnoCentive from 2001 to 2005. From 2000 to 2001, he was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Real Med, Inc. and from 1998 to 2000, he was the attorney for all U.S. sales and marketing of Prozac and advised the company on all legal issues pertaining to the marketing and related clinical development of antidepressants in the Eli Lilly pipeline. Mr. Carroll is also a member of the Board of Directors for other New Ventures portfolio companies including Hydra Biosciences, Inc., GlobeImmune, Inc. and Nanostream, Inc. Mr. Carroll received a B.A. in Political Science from Syracuse University and an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Syracuse, where he is a member of the Board of Advisors. He also received a J.D. from the Syracuse University College of Law.
Amiel M. Kornel
Director and Secretary
Since September 2004, Mr. Kornel has been a Senior Managing Director of Spencer Trask Emerging Technologies Group, LLC where he is responsible for growing the firm s relationship network, identifying qualified early-stage investment opportunities, and supporting strategic management of companies within the Spencer Trask portfolio. From January 2003 to August 2004, Mr. Kornel founded and was the managing partner at Kornel & Associates, the Silicon Valley affiliate of Strategos, an innovation consultancy firm. From January 1998 to December 2002, Mr. Kornel was a Partner at The McKenna Group, where he founded the Innovation Practice, dedicated to helping clients extract more value from their technologies, know-how, brands and relationships. From 1992 to 1998, he was a consultant in the high technology strategy practice of Lochridge & Co., where he worked with numerous Global 1000 companies in the telecommunications and networking sectors. Mr. Kornel received a B.A. in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago and an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.
Barry Libert
Director
Mr. Libert is the Chairman of Mzinga and brings more than 25 years of executive and company leadership experience to further awareness of the importance of community and social networking in helping enterprises to solve business needs and remain competitive in a rapidly changing world. Mr. Libert is the co-author of the critically acclaimed book "We Are Smarter Than Me," where he and his co-authors used the power of Web 2.0 technologies and the Wiki-based contributions of more than 4,000 people to illustrate how businesses could profit from the wisdom of crowds. Mr. Libert is the founder and former CEO of Mzinga's predecessor's company Shared Insights and one of the first in the industry to recognize and promote the value of communities, open business models, and Web 2.0 technologies to improve their top and bottom line performance. He is a graduate of Tufts University and holds an MBA from Columbia University.
Herbert I. London
Director
Since 1997, Mr. London has been president of the Hudson Institute. He has served as a member of the Hudson Institute Board of Trustees since 1974, and has been a senior fellow for more than thirty years, founding Hudson's Center for Education and Employment Policy. The Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom. Mr. London was the John M. Olin University Professor of Humanities at New York University, responsible for creating the Gallatin School in 1972 and served as dean until 1992. He is a tenured professor of social studies at the university. He is currently active on a number of Board of Directors and Trustees � the National Chamber Foundation; Merrill Lynch Assets Management; the National Association for Industry-Education Cooperation; the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee; and Rose Hulman University. In 1989, Mr. London was one of the Republican candidates for mayor of New York City. In 1990, he was the Conservative Party candidate for Governor of New York, garnering more votes than any third party candidate in the state's history. In 1994, as Republican Party candidate, he narrowly lost the race for New York State Comptroller. He graduated from Columbia University in 1960 and received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1966.
Stephen T. McGrath
Director
Since September 2004, Mr. McGrath has been the Chief Executive Officer of Spencer Trask Emerging Technologies Group, LLC where he is responsible for identifying, mentoring and realizing value in early stage companies in the communications, networking, information technology and Internet sectors in Silicon Valley, California. In July 2000, Mr. McGrath founded and was the Managing General Partner of McKenna Capital, LLC, an early-stage information technology and communications venture capital fund formed in partnership with Regis McKenna and the McKenna Group, LLC. Prior to that, he was the Founder and Director of Strategos, a strategy innovation consulting company, from January 1995 to June 2000, Manager at the MAC Group, an international strategy consulting company, from October 1991 to December 1994. Mr. McGrath received a B.A. and M.A. in Physics and Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Mark Yolton
Board Observer
Mark Yolton leads SAP's Web 2.0 "social network" of communities oriented around the company's platform, products, and technologies for the benefit of customers, partners, and others in the SAP ecosystem.
These include the SAP Developer Network (SDN), the Business Process Expert (BPX), the Business Objects (BOC), and University Alliances (UAC) communities, totalling more than 1,800,000 individual members interacting around the clock and around the world in 200+ countries and territories.
Mark joined SAP and his current role in 2005. Immediately prior, he managed online properties for PeopleSoft and then Oracle. Previously, Mark was VP of marketing and strategy for the $3B Services division of Sun Microsystems, and he managed internet properties as well as field sales support and regional marketing for Unisys Corporation and The Prudential.
Mark has degrees in Communications/Journalism and Marketing from Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania, and has completed MBA coursework and continuing executive education at LaSalle University (Philadelphia), at INSEAD (France), and at Stanford University (California). A Philadelphia native, Mark lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and travels globally as he works with SAP Community Network members and colleagues around the world.