Entrepreneur India 2012

Mr. David Wittenberg, Chief Executive Officer, The Innovation Workgroup

Known as India’s resident innovation guru, Mr David Wittenberg’s main business is to teach world-class innovation to leading Indian and multi-national corporations including Reliance Industries, Tata and Ericsson. The author of ‘The Executive’s Guide to Innovation’, Mr Wittenberg introduces global best practices in the discipline of innovation.

In addition to his innovation work with large corporates, he recently started an entrepreneurial venture in the education space, offering faculty development programs for MBA and PGDM instructors.

Prior to founding ‘The Innovation Workgroup’, he worked at one of the world’s leading innovation labs, the Advanced Concepts and Technology group at Pitney Bowes, a Fortune 500 corporation. A lifelong innovator, Mr Wittenberg holds two patents, has written five books, is a published songwriter, and has created four business solutions that each generated more than $1 million.

Earlier in his career, he worked as an independent management consultant for firms such as American Express, AT&T, Kelly Services, Philip Morris, Standard & Poor’s and UPS.