Consultant, Corporate Venturing;
President & CEO, PPT Research, Inc.
Lecturer, Wharton
rpierant@wharton.upenn.edu
Courses:
Management 806: Formation and Implementation of Entrepreneurial Ventures
Bio:
Ron Pierantozzi is currently a partner in Cameron and Asoociates, LLC, an innovation consulting company in Philadelphia. He has served as the CEO of PPT Research, a materials technology company in Allentown, PA after retiring from the management ranks of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. He has also been affliated with the Radical Innovation Group, a consulting firm that works with global companies to develop their innovation capability. Ron previously served as Air Product’s Director, Business Development, which focused on new venture creation and technology transfer. This involved a wide range of duties that included identifying and commercializing new technologies, forming and incubating new technology-based ventures, managing external partnerships and forming market alliances, and investing in both early and late stage companies working through high profile VCs. Ron continues to work closely with VCs in the advanced materials and machine-to-machine sectors, where he provides expertise in market strategy and business valuation.
Ron previously served as Director of Technology with APCI for platforms in hydrogenation, amination, and nitration technologies. He also held various positions the Performance Ceramics & Process Systems Group, and was Director of the Adsorption Technology Center. Ron is an inventor/co-inventor, and holds 32 U.S. patents and has authored 16 publications. His most recent publications, “Implementing a Learning Plan to Counter Project Uncertainty” with Mark Rice and Gina O'Connor, and “Create Three Distinct Career Paths for Innovators”, with Gina O’Connor and Andrew Corbell were published in Sloan Management Review, January 2008 and Harvard Business Review, December 2009 respectively.
Ron is a lecturer at Wharton where he frequently lectures on subjects dealing with innovation and entrepreneurship. He is also a member of the faculty for the program on Corporate Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Danish Technical University, where he conducts a seminar on developing business plans for the global enterprise. He was an executive in Residence at RPI’s Lally School of Technology Management for the 2007-2008 academic year. He is on the board of directors of Primet Precision Materials, Inc. in Ithaca NY and on the board of advisors for Powergetics, Inc. in San Francisco, CA.
Ron received his B.S. in Chemistry from Temple University and his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University.
