 Matthew
Wasserman
Director, Global Portfolio& Product Stewardship
Church & Dwight
Matt Wasserman has been in the CPG Industry for 16 years. He
started his career and spent 8 years with Procter & Gamble
in global R&D and has spent the last 8 years at Church & Dwight
in R&D, Innovation Systems, and Product & Portfolio
Stewardship. Matt is a Chemical Engineer by degree and
holds a number of process patents in laundry applications. Matt
holds numerous training certificates in business processes
such as Stage Gate, Project & Portfolio Management, and
most recently his New Product Development Professional Certification
through the PDMA. Although he spent the first 12 years
of his career doing mainly Product Development, the last four
years has been focused on the design and implementation of
these business processes for his current employer, Church & Dwight.
Case
Study Presentation:
Church & Dwight’s Approach to Product Innovation:
Fewer, Bigger, Better
 Bruce Kirk
Director Corporate Innovation Effectiveness
Corning
Inc.
Bruce Kirk is responsible for the advancement of Innovation
Effectiveness throughout Corning Incorporated.
His responsibilities include innovation process development
and deployment, employee education and training, global benchmarking,
and next generation process development. He is the corporate
process owner of Corning’s Five Stage Innovation Process
and the Roadmapping process. Bruce has been leading the Revitalize
Innovation Globally (RIG) initiative for the Corporation since
2005.
He has extensive experience teaching the principles and practice
of the innovation process and tools to teams in Corning’s
worldwide network. He is also skilled in facilitating the development
of roadmaps and business technology strategies with the business
units.
Bruce joined Corning in 1976 and has held various leadership
positions in sales, sales management,
marketing management and business management. His career experience
has spanned several Corning divisions including Medical Products,
Science Products, Human Resources, Photonic Technologies, and
Science and Technology.
Case Study Presentation:
Corning's Unwavering Commitment to Product Innovation
 Wally Slone
Vice President Business Solutions
Fresenius Medical Care
Wally Slone is the Vice President of Business Solutions in the Fresenius Renal Therapies Group (RTG) and has overall responsibility for three areas of the business: Business Systems Program Management and Information Technology. Wally oversees the implementation of innovation programs such as Stage-Gate®, portfolio management, culture transformation and technology initiatives at RTG in order to drive the organization to achieve its strategic goals.
His accomplishments include the successful implementation of a leadership innovation program, project portfolio management and enterprise business systems and changing the approach of technology procurement and implementation from “best of breed” to a platform.
Wally holds a Bachelors of Art from DePaul University in Chicago,
Illinois.
Case Study Presentation:
Aligning People, Process, and Technology to Drive Product and Technology Innovation Performance
 Peter Meyers
Vice President Marketing
ICOM
Peter Meyer ’s career began at Procter & Gamble,
where he held progressive positions in brand management. Throughout
his career, Peter has held various key leadership roles in
both sales and marketing, providing the broad understanding
of business operations he holds today. Peter holds a Bachelor
of Commerce from Queen’s University.
As Vice President of Product Development and Innovation at
ICOM, Peter is responsible for driving superior customer value
and differentiation for ICOM’s product line. In this
role, he is responsible for Product Management and all work
related to product innovation.
An acknowledged expert in targeted promotion and lead generation;
understanding and shifting consumer behaviour; direct marketing
strategy; database mining and target selection, Peter has been
a regular participant at key Direct Marketing and Promotion Industry
conferences over the years.
Case Study Presentation:
How ICOM is Using Stage-Gate to Achieve Top-Line Growth
 Dick Arra
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
ITT
Industries
Dick Arra is Vice President and Chief
Technolgy Officer at ITT’sDefense and Electronics Business
Unit. ITT Defense and Electronics develops complexProducts
and Systems that Serve military and Civilan Customers. SSeveral
years ago,Mr. Arra was sequestered by their CEO to establish
ITT’s critical ‘Value Based Product Development’ initiative – a
disciplined management process to drive profitable growth through
new products modeled after Cooper’s Stage-Gate system.
During this five year project, Dick led the successful implementation
of VBPD across their complex, global organization spanning
4 very diverse divisions, 50+ value centers and across 90+
countries. Dick was instrumental in designing the world-class
innovation program as well as steering its organization-wide
implementation. Dick obtained his Master’s of Business
Administration degree (Finance) at Fairleigh Dickinson University,
his Masters of Engineering (Electrical) at NYU and Bachelor’s
of Engineering (Electrical) at Manhattan College.
Case Study
Presentation:
How ITT Drives Value-Creation with Value Based Product Development
 John Gilbert
Director Research & Development
Johnson & Johnson
John Gilbert has been with Johnson & Johnson for 19 years.
He is aDirector of Research and Development at Johnson & Johnson’s
Consumer Products Company and is responsible forPortfolio
managementand the development of new business processes
for two of the major business units. He recently led the successful
implementation ofan improved NPD and Portfolio
Management processes for the Women's Health Consumerand
Baby Global business units within the J&J Products Company.
John is a graduate of Rutgers College of Engineering with
BSME Mechanical Engineering and has expertise in Six Sigma,
Design for Six Sigma, Project Management and is Certified Black
Belt and Trainer in Design Excellence for New Product Development.
Case Study Presentation:
Disciplined Stage-Gate System within a Truly Entrepreneurial Culture
 Andres Salinas
Vice President Process Improvement
McKesson Provider Technologies
Andres Salinas joined McKesson in February
2007 as Vice President of Process Improvement within the
Planning & Process Office.
His focus since joining the McKesson has been on program
managing the Stage-Gate initiative across the enterprise.
Throughout his career, Andres has led projects in Balanced
Scorecard Strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions,
Divestitures, Sales Force Automation, Customer Relationship
Management, and Business and Process Reengineering. His
experiences have included large and small organizations
in the Public sector, as well as the Healthcare, Financial
Services, Telecommunications, Utilities, Entertainment,
Insurance, Transportation, and Automotive industries.
Andres has over 21 years of management and
consulting experience. Prior to joining McKesson in early
2007, Andres was a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton’s
management consulting office in Atlanta, Vice President at
Wachovia Bank and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Coast
Guard.
Case Study Presentation:
How McKesson Provider Technologies is implementing Stage-Gate
to ‘Make it Stick’
 Kim Jones
Director of Innovation &
Initiative Management Systems
Procter & Gamble
Kim Jones assumed responsibility in 2006 for the innovation
and initiative management systems across the Procter & Gamble
Company. Her first two years have focused on a
renewal of end-to-end innovation management processes, insuring
initiative leadership excellence, and leveraging scale, standardization
and simplification throughout the company. After
an in-depth strength and opportunity analysis, an action plan
has been agreed with senior leadership. In the implementation
phase, Kim’s responsibilities will include establishing
Innovation Diamond Management as a formal organization within
P&G, accelerating the adoption of critical best-in-class
work processes, tracking critical result and in-process measures
at the corporate level, and identifying the ‘next generation’ of
Innovation Diamond Management.
Kim joined P&G in 1978 with an Electrical Engineering
degree, working on innovations in the Baby Care business. For
24 years, Kim has managed multi-million dollar initiatives
and innovation master planning in several of Procter & Gamble's
billion dollar businesses
Case Study Presentation:
Product Leadership: P&G’s Innovation Diamond
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