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Peter Hanik is President and Founder of Pretium Innovation, specializing in intellectual property and team-based innovation systems to create sustainable value. He has developed proprietary onsite and online services for innovation methods in business strategy, business process redesign, capital efficiency improvement, product concept development, intellectual property enhancement and technology road-mapping. Mr. Hanik was also President of technology at Reliance Industries in Mumbai, where he led research and development programs in refining, petrochemicals and polymers. Prior to that, he worked in various executive, managerial and sales positions at Millennium Chemicals, Quantum Chemical and Northern Petrochemical. Mr. Hanik holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Nebraska.

Robert Hausmann is a Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Health Sciences Leadership at the University of Houston. He teaches graduate classes in leadership development, change and diffusion of innovation, organizational learning and business strategy. He is also on the corporate learning faculty for Harvard Business School, where he develops and facilitates executive education programs for Fortune 100 companies, and is also a Managing Principal of the Houston-based consultancy Interaction Impact Inc. Dr. Hausmann was formerly Managing Director at CNA’s Institute for Public Research, a non-profit think tank in Washington DC, where he served as a senior research scientist. He has also served as an advisor to senior leadership in the White House, the US Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. He holds a PhD in human and organizational learning from George Washington University, a master’s degree in social-organizational psychology from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Honors College of the University of Houston.