Former CINO
HP, Philips, Schneider Electric
Paul Campbell has been a thought leader in corporate innovation for more than two decades. His experience with a broad range of business models, technologies, and products around the world lends him a unique perspective on the changes in business innovation and leadership. He provides listeners an overview of innovation developments, where they have led us, and what we can expect in the future. Paul Campbell successfully built new businesses that generated billions in revenue for companies like Hewlett-Packard, Philips Electronics, Schneider Electric, and W.L. Gore & Associates. As Chief Innovation Officer at multiple companies, Paul helped leadership teams assess the cultural, structural and leadership changes necessary to foster an environment of innovation in large companies that matches the speed of startups that optimizes capital deployment and return on R&D and Innovation programs. All total, Paul has helped companies earn a spot on the list in four of the ten years that Fast Company has published its Most Innovative Companies List. Paul is an advisor to the World Economic Forum, the European Commission and numerous accelerators/incubators around the globe. He lectures at bay area universities on the unique leadership and organizational approaches necessary for large companies to capture disruptive innovations that lead to outsized growth and Fast Company recognition.