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 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 and businesses in Europe, Asia and the United States, and has extensive experience in product and market development, reengineering organizations, successfully blending cultures in mergers and acquisitions and divesting non-core assets.

Pent also

• Has served on the Board of Directors of Plaskon, LLC, an electronics specialty materials company
  
  
• Has served on the Board of Directors of the Industrial Research Institute (IRI)
  
  
• Has served on the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Textile Technology
  
  
• Is currently Vice-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), the American Chemical Society (ACS) and SCORE
  
  
• Was past member of 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 and market development, program management and identifying Wide-Moat-Uncontested-Market-Space^TM for your organization's products and services.