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- Business Growth / Strategy / Trends
- Corporate Culture & Governance
- Disruption
- Employee Engagement
- Futurists / Trends
- Innovation / Creativity
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Alex Goryachev Global Technology Executive - Digitization, Transformation and Innovation, WSJ Bestselling Author
Alex Goryachev's candid, thought provoking, yet entertaining speeches and workshops demystify innovation, and encourage the audience to re-think corporate norms in order to survive, grow and prosper. Alex masterfully combines best industry practices with his own international startup and corporate experience, equipping audience with pragmatic and actionable steps that can change culture and turn any organization into innovation machine.
Alex Goryachev is an award-winning global technology executive and a Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of “Fearless Innovation: Going Beyond the Buzzword to Continuously Drive Growth, Improve the Bottom Line, and Enact Change”, whose resume reads like a brief history of digitization.
Over the past 20 years, Alex made it his business to turn disruptive concepts into successful ecosystem-centric business models. He has an extensive track record of building and leading global cross-industry business & technology teams focused on revenue and market share growth, increasing customer acquisition and profitability through new digital products and offerings. The co-innovation programs that Alex created continuously reinvented the capabilities of the Internet by empowering employees, building ecosystems, and creating new offerings inside and outside traditional product and partnership portfolio.
Alex is passionate about leveraging innovation purposefully and pragmatically to create opportunities for all. Today, he is serving as Innovator-in-Residence at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Tulane University. He is an active venture partner with Interlock Capital, a community-driven venture fund primarily investing in underrepresented founders and geographies. Alex is also a US delegate and Technical Advisory Group member in the International Standards Association (ISO), defining global common standards for Innovation Management.
Prior, as a Managing Director of Global Innovation Programs and Strategy at Cisco, a $50B technology powerhouse, he pioneered the concept of ecosystem co-innovation, creating and later leading global of 16 network of global co-innovation centers in North and South America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific. He held senior leadership roles in the Office of the CTO, Emerging Technology Group and Corporate Development, and led core innovation programs, unifying, and advancing strategic co-innovation partnerships and programs with internal and external customers, partners, developers, academia, and governments. He created award-winning employee innovation and development offerings, providing ~70,000 employees with meaningful opportunities to innovate, regardless of their grade or function.
In the past, Alex had extended gigs with revolutionary music services Napster and Liquid Audio, pioneering digital music distribution, and bringing it to millions around the world. He also adapted innovations to other industries, leveraging his Master Degree in Ecosystem innovation to digitize business processes at IBM and Pfizer.
Alex got transplanted to the US as a teenager. He rapidly discovered new freedoms all around him, as well as the power of the ultimate equalizer - the Internet. He immediately set out on a life course far different from his upbringing as the son of a high-ranking official in the Soviet diplomatic corps. His journey started early when he got to know the local internet community, become involved with Electronic Frontier Foundation, and taught himself as a teen-ager to master UNIX operating systems and design web pages.
Fast forward 30 years, Alex Goryachev has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for innovation and culture transformation. As a sought-after expert, he is a contributing writer for Forbes and Chief Executive Magazine, and an Editorial Advisory Board Member for Innovation Leader Magazine.