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Sunjong Ryu Bet His Severance on a Basement Full of Possibility
He left the corporate ladder with a 10 million won stake and a stubborn question: what if Korea's good ideas had somewhere to become real things? A decade later, his work has moved from 3D printers to a venture studio built around revenue, repeat customers, and execution.
Giovanni Battistini Is Betting the Next Wearable Breakthrough Starts With an Enzyme
After three decades moving between corporations, startups, and laboratories, the PhenoTap founder has narrowed his work to one stubborn bottleneck: the enzyme inside the sensor.
Tim Bernstein
Tim Bernstein is the CEO of yet2, an open innovation and technology scouting firm founded in 1999 with backing from DuPont, Procter & Gamble, Honeywell and Siemens. He joined the company in 2001, rose from operator to chief executive, and now spends his days matching corporate R&D needs with technologies and partners pulled from a database of more than five million solution providers. A Yale economist with a Stanford MBA and a Harvard Kennedy School policy degree, he turned an academic thesis on university licensing into a career spent brokering deals others could not find.
Philipp Skogstad
Philipp Skogstad runs Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America - the Sunnyvale-to-San-Jose corridor of the company that invented the car. A Stanford-trained engineer who once managed open innovation programs at SAP, he now oversees an 830-person R&D operation that ships Drive Pilot (the only SAE-certified Level 3 system on US roads), the MBUX infotainment stack, and Mercedes' ChatGPT-in-the-dashboard experiment.
John Pritchard
Dr. John Pritchard is the CEO of Radiant Logic, where he leads a platform that unifies identity data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments for Fortune 500 enterprises. With a PhD in open innovation in AI from the University of Denver and over 25 years spanning Lockheed Martin, IBM, Adobe, and Okta, Pritchard joined Radiant Logic in 2022 as Chief Product Officer and expanded the company from a virtual directory provider into an AI-powered Identity Security Posture Management platform - before being appointed CEO in January 2025. He is a Forbes Technology Council contributor, Identiverse keynote speaker, and a vocal advocate for treating identity data as a strategic organizational asset.