Industrializing Innovation-The Next Revolution

Mr. Suresh K. Sharma co-founded Open Range Capital Partners and is it’s Managing Partner. Currently, he also actively helps commercialize university innovations into startups. A former GE executive-turned-entrepreneur, he exemplifies remarkably rich global track record of innovation, startups, technology, capital investments and business leadership. His last book; ＂The 3^rd American Dream＂ (2014, 2^nd Ed.) focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. And an earlier one; ＂Global Outsourcing＂ (2005) laid out a pragmatic road map of scaling businesses internationally. He has had advanced education in India, UK and USA.
Mr. Karl E. Meyer recently co-founded a very innovative and unique investment enterprise - ’Open Range Capital Partners’ - that is designed to significantly transform venture capital, and its ability to creation value using digital technologies. He is a VC with deep global business operating experience. During his 30 years of outstanding software technology career - spreading over numerous countries in all 4 continents with leading Fortune 50 corporations - he has left indelible footprints of changing the game for hundreds of applications, architectures, M&A, and turnarounds in multiple industries including: energy, healthcare, smart manufacturing, sensors, software, data analytics and the data supply chain. A keen student of innovation process globally, he is one of the world’s leading experts on architecting next generation ’Innovation Hubs’ leveraging visible patterns and other anti-patterns.