Innovation: Setting your Company Up for Success in Commercialization, Adoption, and Further Investment

Innovation: Setting your Company Up for Success in Commercialization, Adoption, and Further Investment  

Speaker: Kipum (Kip) Lee is a designer, scholar, and healthcare executive. Currently, he serves as Vice President of Innovation & Product Strategy at University Hospitals (UH) in Cleveland, OH where he leads a team of innovators within UH Ventures – the innovation and commercialization arm of health system. His day-to-day work involves managing the innovation portfolio and "living lab" that supports University Hospitals’ strategic initiatives and partnerships through product innovation and human-centered design. Earlier in his career, he was part of the team at frog design that produced a mobile service around HIV awareness and self-testing in South Africa that was hailed by The Economist as “the world’s largest field trial in mobile health technology.” He also helped plan and lead the design of Marriott Mobile, which debuted at number four in the iTunes App Store and shortly went on to become the third largest in mCommerce after Amazon and Apple.   

Kip graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) in biomedical sciences and from Carnegie Mellon University with a Masters in interaction design. He is currently finishing his PhD in management at Case Western Reserve University and serves on the editorial board of the design and innovation journal, Design Issues, published by MIT Press.