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Robin A. Karol, Ph.D., NPDP

 

Dr. Robin A. Karol is co- founder  of Innovation Guides .  Dr. Karol is also an adjuct full professor at the University of Delaware Lerner School of Business Administration where she teaches courses on the Management of Creativity and Innovation. She is the former CEO/Executive Director of the Product Development & Management Association and former Director of Innovation Process for DuPont..  She led the New Offering Development Process which installed a newly revised Innovation process for growth.  She is a certified New Product Development Professional (NPDP) with the Product Development Management Association (PDMA).  Robin holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from SUNY Buffalo and did a Post-doctoral fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  At DuPont, Robin held many positions including Research Supervisor of the Virology Research Group, Systems Team Leader in Clinical Diagnostics, and Quality Manager of R&D for the IMED (Imaging Medical).   Prior to joining DuPont, she was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. 


     

Richard Tait, Ph.D., NPDP
 

Dr. Richard Tait is an associate with Innovation Guides. His accomplishments are highlighted by a 22-year research, management and consulting career with DuPont where he led DuPont’s New Product Network and was a founding member and innovation manager for the DuPont Center for Creativity and Innovation.

 Outside of DuPont Richard has led product development process improvement consulting projects and has facilitated innovation and growth projects and led idea generation processes with a range of Fortune 500 and mid-size companies. He was a co-developer of the Institute for Inventive Thinking for the National Inventers Hall of Fame and is currently program manager for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Public Media Innovation Fund.

 Richard is co-author of the book Value Innovation Portfolio Management:Achieving Double-Digit Growth through Customer Value and has published numerous articles on innovation and new product development in the business press. He is a certified New Product Development Professional (by the PDMA) and holds a PhD in physics from Cornell University.

 
Beebe Nelson, Ed.D., NPDP

Dr. Beebe Nelson is co-founder of Innovation Guides, and  Director of the IAPD, a Corporate Member Program of the PDMA. Beebe has consulted with firms across many different industries to help them understand and implement the leading practices in new product development. She has organized, chaired, presented at, and facilitated conferences and workshops in product development, and has contributed chapters and articles in the PDMA Handbook (first edition) and Toolbooks 1 & 2. Her holistic new product development model is in use at a number of firms and consulting companies. From 1998 to 2003, she was Book Review Editor of the Journal of Product Innovation Management, a publication of the PDMA.  Beebe is a certified new product development professional (NPDP) and holds a doctoral degree in philosophy from Harvard's Graduate School of Education.