Dinner Meeting Speaker

 

Jack Hipple is a Principal of Innovation-TRIZ, an innovation training and consulting firm based in Tampa, FL.

 

After receiving his chemical engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University, he spent 30 years in the chemical industry, including responsibility for Dow Chemical’s Discovery Research and global chemical engineering R&D,  foreign technology sourcing and management practices at the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, and special new product development projects at Ansell Edmont and Cabot Corporation.  Prior to forming his own company in 1999, he worked in a business development role with Ideation International, a leading TRIZ consulting and software supplier, and Idea Connections, an organizational innovation consulting firm. In addition to his training and experience in TRIZ, he has received formal training in innovation and assessment tools including DeBono Lateral Thinking and Six Hats, Myers Briggs, and Kirton KAI assessment methodology.

 

His clients include S.C. Johnson, Eastman Chemical, Air Products, Siemens Westinghouse, Dow Chemical, Mead Westvaco, Caterpillar, 3M, Timken, the US Navy, and the Bank of Montreal. He teaches TRIZ for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the World Future Society, the American Creativity Association, and the Altshuller TRIZ Institute.