Jim Stengel - Unleashing the Innovators: How Mature Companies Find New Life with Startups

Zackery Hicks, CIO of Toyota Motor North America and CEO of Toyota Connected. Hicks is not just studying human behavior to transform the automobile but also trying to push the limits of mobility into completely new areas with the help of partnerships with startups.

Tim Armstrong, CEO of Oath, a Verizon division that includes AOL and Yahoo brands, and former president of Google Americas operations. Having served at small and large companies and been on both sides of acquisitions, Armstrong has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly at startups and enterprise companies.

Steve Ellis, executive vice president and head of the Innovation Group at Wells Fargo, oversees the banks partnerships with startups.

Reese Schroeder, managing director of Motorola Solutions Venture Capital. Betting on more than two hundred startups over two decades, Schroeder has achieved a great ROI by focusing less on money than on how investments can help Motorola.

Joanna Seddon, president of global brand consulting at OgilvyRED. A keen observer of human nature as well as a brilliant researcher, Seddon has overseen the first quantitative study of global partnerships between enterprises and startups.

Ben Kaufman, founder and CEO of Quirky, a now-defunct startup that crowdsourced new products and teamed up with GE in a venture that tried to do too much, too fast.

Beth Comstock, vice chair of GE, who oversees GE Business Innovations. More entrepreneur than executive, Comstock has helped reinvent the industrial giant by embracing the lean-startup practices of Eric Ries and partnering with dozens of startups.

David S. Rose, founder of New York Angels and CEO of Gust, an online platform that connects investors with startups. An entrepreneur since adolescence, Rose believes legacy companies are headed to annihilation unless they enact radical changes.

Tina Sharkey, a Bay Area entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has a long history of putting together startups and large enterprises, helping to sort out and reconcile their differences, and putting them on a path to growth.

Brian Tockman, principal at 301 INC, the venture group at General Mills, tasked with finding new companies that can vault the old food company into exciting new areas.

John Haugen, VP and general manager of 301 INC and Brian Tockmans boss. A long-serving veteran of General Mills, Haugen now spends his time with progressive, young food companies.

Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of GE. Although hes held the office since 2001, Immelt has lately behaved much more like an outsider than a long-serving insider. He has spearheaded FastWorks and given active support to partnerships with startups.

Viv Goldstein, global director of innovation acceleration at GE. As cofounder of FastWorks, a multiyear effort to make the industrial giant leaner, faster, and smarter, she has overseen the FastWorks engagement with thousands and thousands of employees.

Janice Semper, leader, GE Culture. Few people know the people who work at the digital industrial giant as well as she. An HR specialist, Semper has been an indispensable player in making GEs epic makeover, FastWorks, meaningful to executives and the rank and file.

Zain Jaffer, founder and CEO of Vungle, which inserts highly targeted, entertaining ads into short videos. An immigrant from the United Kingdom, Jaffer has rapidly built a company devoted to serving smartphone addicts and the brands that support the apps.

Aaron Levie, cofounder and CEO of Box, which allows users to store, manipulate, and share digital files. Partnering with giants like IBM and Procter & Gamble, Levie has found a new role beyond technical services: helping these companies rethink their processes.

Sue Siegel, CEO of GE Ventures and healthymagination. A seasoned venture capitalist and corporate executive, Siegel oversees GEs expanding portfolio of investments and partnerships with startups.

Braden More, head of partnerships and industry relations for Wells Fargos payments business. Reporting to innovation guru Steve Ellis, More created an accelerator that works with just a handful of targeted startups each year.

Brian Cornell, CEO of Target. Coming in soon after the failure of the Canadian expansion, the hacking of credit cards, and a slow embrace of the digital age, Cornell has pushed innovative practices and partnerships on many fronts .

Gene Han, head of the San Francisco Innovation Center for Target. Arriving in the United States as a boy from South Korea, Han has harnessed his engineering and business smarts to Targets embrace of the Internet of Things. Han oversees its Open House, where walk-ins can try out new gizmos.