Dr. H. R. (Pent) Penton

Innovation Insights, LLC was founded in 2005 by Dr. H.R. Penton (Pent),, and today is providing consulting services, workshops and seminars on business strategy and innovation to Fortune 500 companies as well as small and medium-sized companies and organizations. Pent has a B.S. degree from Florida State University and a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has held various management positions in research, technology, marketing, commercial and business development and strategic planning with AKZO, Ethyl Corporation, Albemarle Corporation, Amoco and BP.

Pent has extensive experience in innovation management, and growing businesses through organic growth as well as through mergers and acquisitions. He has created and led organizations in developing new products, services and businesses in Europe, Asia and the United States, and has extensive experience in product, service and business innovation, reengineering organizations, successfully blending cultures in mergers and acquisitions and divesting non-core assets

Pent also

• Is on the Executive Education faculty of the E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University
  
  
• Served on the Board of Directors of Plaskon, LLC, an electronics specialty materials company
  
  
• Served on the Board of Directors of the Industrial Research Institute (IRI)
  
  
• Served on the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Textile Technology
  
  
• Is past Chair of the Industrial Research Institute Emeriti
  
  
• Is an active member of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), and SCORE® (Counselors to America’s Small Businesses)
  
  
• Is a former member of the European Industrial Research Managers Association (EIRMA).
  

Innovation Insights is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with a satellite office in Roswell, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, and provides consulting services, workshops and seminars to companies, non-profits and universities throughout the United States, Europe and Asia on product, business, market development and innovation and identifying Wide-Moat-Uncontested-Market-Space^TM for your organization's products and services.