Welcome to Faces of Innovation!

This podcast is dedicated to speaking to leaders across the innovation ecosystem, from Venture Builders to Chief Innovation Officers.

Faces of Innovation is hosted by Rachel Gordon. Rachel is a growth and innovation advisor to ambitious industry leaders in consumer packaged goods and pharmaceuticals. In her 20-year career, she's led innovation initiatives across Europe and North America in-house and as a consultant.

Today, she helps clients create internal structures for successful long-term innovation, enabling them to uncover market opportunities, build innovation capability and position themselves for large-scale growth. Rachel’s experience includes work with: ABInBev, AstraZeneca, Danone, General Mills, Harley-Davidson, PepsiCo and Virgin.

For episode 1 we're excited to be speaking to Ron J. Williams. Ron helps bold companies identify and de-risk "good growth" engines: High potential opportunities that are unapologetically impactful and unequivocally commercial. He is an Inclusive venture builder supporting overlooked founders and problem spaces. Ron has founded, built, invested in and advised on peer-to-peer, sharing economy, marketplace, machine learning and social commerce companies.

In varied roles as a founder, intrapreneur, consultant, Entrepreneur in Residence and Program Lead, he has helped Fortune 500 companies re-engineer core business strategies and innovation programs across industries.

This is a fantastic episode for anyone working in Innovation, Venture Building and Studios, Venture Capital, and Startups.