ANNOUNCEMENT : Its official now !!! Joined Hypios as new "Vice President - Strategy"
https://www.hypios.com/thinking/youngest-ted-fellow-vice-president-at-20/In the last years, many stories of ultra young start-up founders bringing their companies to the top of the high-tech field have made it to the headlines. Mark Zuckerberg famously (or, as some would say, “infamously”) launched facebook aged 20. While ultra-young start-up founders are very common, established companies have long resisted giving key-positions to very young leaders. But there are signals that this is changing.This week hypios [ www.hypios.com ] , the technological leader in Open Innovation and R&D Problem-Solving recruited the youngest TED fellow, the Indian inventor Apurv Mishra [ www.apurvmishra.com ]. At age 20, Mishra will become the company’s Vice President Strategy. Olivier Petros, experienced top executive within bank and industry giants, as well as hypios co-founder and board member explains: « Keeping the changing mode on is a challenge when you are already the leader. Apurv’s age and style perfectly fits with hypios’ DNA : changing before others change is the only way to do it efficiently »Apurv Mishra was born and educated in the KBK District, which he calls « one of the most backward tribal districts in Asia ». When he was just 11 years old, he got his first patent & Invention Award from India’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. He’s since been credited to many inventions (US & Indian Patents) and received many international awards, among them SIYSS Award from the Nobel Foundation at Nobel Prize Ceremony 2009. Far from being a lonely inventor, Apurv soon understood the power of great minds connected. In 2006, he founded Innovator Factor Foundation (IFF) [ www.iffglobal.org ], a virtual Open Innovation think tank with 400 active members. « To be a creative, inventor or researcher is something to be proud of. But if you can’t connect to those who have the power to implement your solutions, you won’t change a thing. hypios helps by connecting the most creative problem-solvers – be they in Kolkata or Harvard – to the large organizations where they can make a real difference. I’m joining hypios to build even more and faster channels from Solvers to Solution Seekers, and to help hypios scale to become a world-spanning community of millions of problem-solvers », Apurv Mishra states.hypios’ President Oussama Ammar, believes that Apurv is the right antidote against the inertia that keeps companies from going open: « Open Problem-Solving is a new paradigm. Most companies still focus on internal Research & Development instead of trying to engage multiple stakeholders and innovators inside and outside their organizations. People with a background like Apurv have the boldness, insight and creativity it needs to really change the game.»–hypiosThe technological leader in Open Problem-Solving broadcasts complex Research & Development Problems to a community of over 150,000 expert Problem-Solvers.
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