Derrick Palmer

Derrick, Director of INOMER at Silicon Valley, consults on strategic innovation with global, Fortune 1000 and medium-sized businesses, including Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, Roche, Disney, Philips, PepsiCo, Medtronic, Cisco, NBC, ArcelorMittal, Hershey’s, Frito-Lay, Kimberly-Clark, and numerous other global firms. His areas of focus include corporate strategy, consumer-inspired new product innovation, designing best-in-class innovation processes, and strategic innovation training.

With 25 years of line management and consulting experience, Derrick brings a wealth of traditional and non-traditional consulting approaches. He has extensive experience leading cross-functional and multi-cultural teams ‘from chaos to clarity’, and in fostering collaboration across organizational lines, brokering business relationships and facilitating decision-making.

Derrick is the co-founder of Silicon Valley-based InnovationPoint, sits on the Advisory Board of Idea Crossing and is a final-round judge for its annual Innovation Challenge, the largest business innovation competition in the world. Prior to co-founding InnovationPoint, he served as Vice President, Business Strategy with NOVO/Giant Step, an Internet Professional Services consulting firm where he established and grew the Business Strategy practice. Previously, he was a Senior Director with IdeaScope Associates, an innovation management consulting firm, where he worked with global companies to identify new revenue opportunities, develop innovative business strategies, create new lines of business and develop new products/services.

A transplanted European, Derrick has lived in six countries and is attuned to the cultural sensitivities of working with global teams. Fluent in several European languages, notably French, German and Dutch, he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from the University of York, England, and a Masters degree in Marketing Management from Lancaster University, England.