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CIPS CONNECTIONSPodcast/Video Interviews by Stephen IbarakiA Chat with Ben duPont: Co-founder and Managing Director at Chartline Capital Partners, a Venture Capital Fund and Rohit Bhargava: Entrepreneur; Best-selling Author; Speaker; Founder of the Non-Obvious Company and Ideapress Publishing This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Ben duPont and Rohit Bhargava.
Prior to Chartline Capital Partners, Ben co-founded yet2.com, an open innovation, technology scouting and patent pooling firm, holding the position as president from 1999 to 2016. In 2000, yet2.com was funded by Siemens, Bayer, Caterpillar, P&G, Honeywell, DuPont and NTT. For several years, Ben worked for DuPont, a global materials science, chemical and agriculture company, and held various management positions across business units including automotive, fibers, specialty chemicals and engineering. Board Appointments
Ben got his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University.
Prior to becoming an entrepreneur and founding the Non-Obvious Company and Ideapress Publishing, he spent 15 years leading marketing/strategy at Ogilvy and Leo Burnett where he advised global brands on human behavior, marketing and storytelling. Outside his speaking and consulting, Rohit has taught persuasive speaking and global marketing as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, is frequently quoted in the global media. Rohit lives in the Washington DC area with his wife and is a proud dad of two boys. He loves the Olympics (he's been to five!) and actively hates cauliflower. |