Vator innovation series

Meet the Corporate Innovators

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Corporate Innovator: Meghann York, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Salesforce

by Steven Loeb, November 7, 2018

York came to Salesforce after its acquisition of ExactTarget in 2013

While most entrepreneurs want to be the one to discover the next Amazon or Twitter, oftentimes major technological shifts are coming from the big companies, the players that have been on the scene for years, if not decades. Those companies have survived because they know how to pivot. They're the ones who either seed new ideas or acquire them and ...

Corporate Innovator: Mark Bees, Vice President of Product Marketing at Catalina USA

by Steven Loeb, October 29, 2018

Catalina has been providing marketing for CPG retailers and brands for 35 years

Corporate Innovator: Tina Moen, Deputy Chief Health Officer at IBM Watson Health

by Steven Loeb, October 22, 2018

IBM's initiatives include Care Manager and Watson for Genomics to individualize care

Corporate innovators: Loni Stark of Adobe and Peter Sheldon of Magento

by Steven Loeb, October 12, 2018

Stark is SD of Strategy & Product Marketing at Adobe, Sheldon is SD of Strategy at Adobe's Magento

While everyone wants to be the first to discover the next big company, to be the one to discover the next Facebook or Twitter, oftentimes the major technological shifts are coming from the big companies, the players that have been on the scene for years, if not decades. Those companies have survived because they know how to pivot, and they ...

Corporate Innovator: Dave Scrim, SVP of Product and Pricing at Conversant

by Steven Loeb, September 21, 2018

Conversant has begun expanding to CPRM with the launch of its Mesobase platform

Corporate Innovator: Shailesh Prakash, Chief Information Officer at the Washington Post

by Steven Loeb, May 15, 2018

Since being purchased by Jeff Bezos in 2013, WaPo has made technology a bigger part of its culture

In recent years, the news space has seen a gigantic shakeup in terms of its influence and viability. The internet has been both a blessing and a curse for traditional news outlets: while sites now have unlimited space to fill, and the ability to reach just about everyone on the planet, they have also seen their business model, which relied ...

Corporate Innovator: Jennifer Dauer, SVP for Strategy and Growth, Cincinnati Children's Hospital

by Kymberlie Mcnicholas, March 21, 2018

CCH's Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC), is the largest pediatric research facility.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center was named by US News & World Report as one of the best in America. It has a powerful innovation cycle driven by researchers and clinicians. The Hospital’s Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC), which is the largest pediatric research facility in the country with more than one million square feet of dedicated research area, takes their ...

Corporate Innovator: David Cannady, Chief Strategy Officer of Mercy Health

by Kymberlie Mcnicholas, March 6, 2018

Mercy Health is Ohio's largest non-profit healthcare system with five hospitals,180 doctor's offices

Mercy Health has a strategic plan that’s based on four strategic pillars: One is amazing patient care; second is operational excellence; fostering healthy communities is third; and the fourth is called "creating the future." Although he’s involved in all four, David Cannady’s job as Chief Strategy Officer is primarily around the very growth-oriented pillar, “creating the future”. He is at ...

Corporate Innovator: Tim Russi, President of Auto Finance at Ally Financial

by Steven Loeb, December 8, 2017

Ally Financial offers auto financing and vehicle protection products.

Corporate Innovator: Michael Hetke, CIO at AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah

by Steven Loeb, November 16, 2017

AAA needs to embrace the future, with autonomous cars and ride-sharing, if it is to survive

I've been writing numerous articles in recent weeks about the exciting and emerging chatbot space, covering the companies that are innovating, the companies that are up-and-coming, and how chatbots are already affecting certain sectors. Among those major tech companies already making waves in the bot space include Amazon's intelligent personal assistant Alexa, as well as Lex, which is Amazon's service for building conversational interfaces ...

Corporate Innovator: Suhas Uliyar talks about Oracle's chatbot strategy

by Steven Loeb, October 16, 2017

Uliyar is Oracle's Vice President of bots, AI, and mobile product management

Will one company make sense of health data?

by Bambi Francisco Roizen
When life gives you lemons, put them on your turkey

by Bambi Francisco Roizen
At SplashX: the challenges of shifting to precision health

by Steven Loeb
How big data is being used to advance precision health

by Kristin Karaoglu
Where are VCs investing across precision health?

by Kristin Karaoglu
How big data is being used to advance precision health

by Kristin Karaoglu
Corporate Innovator: Tina Moen, Deputy Chief Health Officer at IBM Watson Health

by Steven Loeb
A conversation with Helix Chief Product Officer Chris Glode

by Bambi Francisco Roizen