David Croslin is President of Innovate the Future, a consultancy specializing in customer, product, and market innovation. He holds twenty-five patents and served as Chief Technologist within Hewlett-Packard’s $12 billion Communications, Media, and Entertainment division and as Chief Product Architect for Verizon Business and MCI. Croslin advises technology firms and investors and works with start-ups as a C-level executive and board member. His LinkedIn group “Innovate the Future” connects more than two-thousand leading innovators in seventy countries.