Pretium Innovation, LLC is a Houston, Texas based company with a regional office in Michigan. Pretium consultants are business executives and seasoned TRIZ professionals who bring state of the art innovation techniques, expertise, coaching and implementation skills to help your organization.
Our Mission is to be the leading company in the world in the development and application of structured innovation for the creation of sustainable economic value.
Our Staff:
Peter Hanik President
1972 BS Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
1984 MBA University of Chicago
Mr. Hanik has over 35 years of executive management and technology experience. He has held positions of Senior Vice President Technology, Millennium Chemicals; President and CEO, Millennium Petrochemicals; Vice President Chemicals & Supply Chain, Quantum Chemical; Vice President Reengineering and Information Systems, Quantum Chemical; Director Applied Research & Technical Service, Quantum Chemical; Regional Sales Manager, Northern Petrochemical; Engineering Manager, Northern Petrochemical; Production Superintendent, Northern Petrochemical.
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Former Board Member, Executive Committee Member, and Petrochemical
Committee Chairman – National Petrochemical and Refiners Association
Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers Industrial Advisory Board
Registered Professional Engineer – Nebraska
Sergey Malkin Vice President Technology
1983 MSEE, Sevastopol Technological University
1985 MBA Simferopol Business School, Simferopol, Ukraine
1986 TRIZ Specialist, TRIZ Seminar, Simferopol, Ukraine
1990 TRIZ R&D Specialist, TRIZ Institute, Kishinev, Moldova
1999 Client-Server Application Developer, Goal Training, Detroit, MI
2002 Essentias of Business Development, Regis University MBA Program
Mr. Malkin is a well-know TRIZ Expert, trained by the method’s founder, Genrich Altschuller and has more than 25 years experience of TRIZ application, organization TRIZ&VE departments in different organizations. He has held positions of Director of Software Development, Ideation International Inc.; CEO, Private Enterprise Eurotecton; VP TRIZ&VE, Foton Corp.
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U.S. Patent Number 5,581,663 “Automated Problem Formulator and Solver”
“TRIZ in Progress” Book with coauthors
Ideation Brainstorming e-Book
Eureka on Demand e-Book
Guided Brainstorming e-Book
TRIZSoft® v1.0–3.0 software product-lines
Guided Innovation Toolkit v1.0-2.0 software
R. Scott Evans begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Ph.D. Vice President Business Development.
2005 Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas
2001 MS Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
1997 BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona
Scott Evans begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting is an engineer, technologist and an entrepreneur with experience in a variety of roles and environments. He has taught cross-listed graduate-level courses in technology commercialization and coordinated the Idea to Product® technology commercialization program. He cofounded a materials and manufacturing company based on his Ph.D. research, which partially funded his doctoral studies. His industrial experience includes manufacturing and product engineering for Reynolds Industries and Thermax/CDT, Inc. His research at The University of Texas and Georgia Tech included technology entrepreneurship, product design, MEMS, materials science and manufacturing.
David C. Bonner, Ph.D. Founder, Vice President
BS Chemical Engineering, University of Texas - Austin
MS Chemical Engineering, University of Texas - Austin
PhD Chemical Engineering, University of California – Berkeley
Dr. Bonner has been Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Cabot Corporation, Global Director of Technology at Rohm & Haas, Vice President Research & Development, The Chao Group International, Vice President Research & Development, Premix, Inc., and Vice President Research & Development, B. F. Goodrich Company. Dr. Bonner has been a pioneer in the application of TRIZ technology in the chemical industry. Early in his career, Dr. Bonner was Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University and Texas A&M University.
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Chemical Engineering Advisory Committee, Rice University
Distinguished Engineering Graduate of the University of Texas at Austin in 2001
National Academy of Sciences Board on Assessment of National Institute of Standards and Technology
Registered Professional Engineer - Texas
Galina Malkin begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting TRIZ Specialist.
Galina received her MS degree in Biology in Simferopol State University (Tavrida University) in 1986. In this same year, she first encountered TRIZ at the seminar of G. Altshuller. From that point, not only did she use TRIZ in her scientific work as a molecular biologist, but she also taught the methods of TRIZ to different age groups ranging pre-school to college students and business personal. Her programs were used to teach pre-school students in Latvia SSR. Since in 1994, she lives and works in USA. She worked for major companies and universities such as the University of Michigan, Cayman Chemical, Pfizer, and Wayne State University. In 2006 she joined Pretium and successfully works as a business consulter and Pretium Methodology Developer. With Sergey Malkin and Don Coates begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Professor of Kent State University, she has published an introduction to Pretium Methodology for colleges and universities in The United States.
Our partners:
Value Innovation LLC We are a client focused consulting service, with a combined set of tools (the Value Engineering Methodology and Structured Innovation/Creativity), to help our clients generate superior, cost effective solutions. The techniques used are applicable to any industry, and any problem requiring inventive solutions, ranging from technical, to manufacturing, to business processes/ business communications, and intellectual property enhancement.
InnovaNow is an Organizational Development firm providing support to individuals and organizations to generate value through methods based on proven advanced tools and concepts for the acquisition and implementation of improved and innovative solutions. We have more than 20 years experience in putting together change management programs based on good team processes and on leadership development. We offer coaching support to teams and leaders that face difficult challenges and wish to find innovative solutions to them. InnovaNow helped develop Pretium Innovation LLC methods and practices in the Spanish Language and supports Pretium's Strategy for Spanish Speaking audiences.
The Ukrainian Consulting League (UCL) - is in consulting business in Ukraine. UCL has over 5 years experience in distribution, trade-marketing and business development, best practice in consultancy, recruitment and training for leading companies. UCL is a member of the Association of the Professional Consultants of Ukraine (APCU). In partnership with Pretium Innovation, UCL adds Structured Innovation to the list of services in Ukraine and CIS countries.
PERA Neville-Clarke is a subsidiary of PERA International in the United Kingdom (UK). PERA has over 50 years experience in helping businesses to create advantage and wealth through performance-focused training, best practice consultancy, product and process development and global partnering. In Asia Pacific, Neville-Clarke is renowned as an international consulting firm specializing in Management Systems, Process Improvement and Enterprise-wide Breakthroughs such as Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Sigma. In partnership with Pretium Innovation, Neville-Clarke adds Structured Innovation to the list of specialties it offers to clients. Neville-Clarke has offices in 7 countries – Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, China and Korea.
Halliburton Associates provides Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) and Theory of Constraints (TOC) methods for learning and creating. For your Business, Agency, or School we offer Theory of Constraints (TOC) seminars and consulting for conflict and relationship management and increased productivity. We offer Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) seminars and consulting to help your people find creative solutions. For your youth we offer Entrepreneurs Grow on TRIZ™, a unique program, combining entrepreneurial and creative education, designed for young people who have the desire to think creatively and use their thinking to become entrepreneurs.
http://www.ceeti.org/ - CEETI’s charter is to ensure open collaboration in the development of a 21st century transportation system that improves energy, security, safety, emissions, personal mobility, and productivity. Pretium facilitated a group of faculty, industry experts and students to develop a technology roadmap for 21st century transportation systems using Pretium’s proprietary TRIZ Roadmapping methods. The roadmap forms the basis for CEETI’s future work in industry, government and academia to further the development of dual-mode transportation systems. The project involved and analysis of four elements of modern transportation systems: dependence on foreign oil, traffic safety, environmental pollution and traffic congestion.
J. J. Kaufman Associates - is a Value Management services company, has over 35 years of Design Engineering, Value Engineering and corporate management experience in the industrial, electronic, processes, services and aerospace markets. Pretium Consulting Services and J. J. Kaufman Associates have synergistically combined the benefits of TRIZ and Value Engineering.
Ideation International Inc. - Provides a structured methodology for resolving complex problems, marketed via educational programs, analytical services and a line of software products. Pretium Consulting has an agreement with Ideation to customize their software to support our processes and the needs of our customers. We continue to identify business opportunities that are mutually beneficial to both companies.