Ellen Di Resta - Respected Leader and Executive Adviser - has built diverse teams that cross functional silos, aligning groups to build resilient innovation pipelines. As an executive leader, she has created new product departments and teams in healthcare, B2B, and SaaS companies. In addition, she teaches graduate and executive education at universities, and creates new curricula to connect academic offerings to corporate needs.

Product, Design, and Innovation Strategy - has held leadership roles within, and advised multinational companies such as P&G, TetraPak, and Becton Dickinson, as well as small companies and academic institutions, to build robust product design capabilities. Collectively they have gained over $2 Billion in additional revenues, with increased development efficiency. She continues to mentor and lecture at MIT, Boston University, and was an advisor to Philadelphia University's interdisciplinary Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce. She has published articles and book chapters on innovation and organizational resilience, and holds degrees in Engineering, Design and an MBA.

Education

• MBA, Boston University Questrom School of Business (Independent organizational behavior thesis topic - Fostering innovation within organizations)

• MS, Multidisciplinary Design Theory and Practice

• BS, Packaging Systems Engineering

 Special Skills

• Building data driven product functions

• Healthcare, Consumer, Wearable, Software product categories

• Human-Centered Product Design and Innovation

• Strategic Vision, Product Roadmapping, Customer Empathy