Larry Schmitt, PhD
Managing Partner
Larry’s passion for innovation is a driving force for Inovo, which he co-founded and is a Managing Partner. He lives and breathes innovation, creating new innovation methodologies and systems as well as actively participating in client projects. His deep knowledge advances innovation thinking and the development of new processes, methods, and tools in collaboration with other innovation thinkers. Larry’s desire to help organizations gain the capabilities and insights to solve their critical innovation problems fuels his innovative activities.
Larry draws upon years of experience in both large corporations and startups that wrestled with being innovative. As a matter of fact, he saw firsthand how, if you don’t push your boundaries and constantly innovate innovation itself, you fall behind. This observation has informed Larry’s guiding philosophy at Inovo. Furthermore, it keeps the company continually creating, developing, testing and learning to push the boundaries of strategic innovation itself.
Larry is a voracious reader with wide and diverse interests. He regularly posts his thoughts on innovation on Inovo’s blog and in numerous articles and white papers. He is frequently invited to speak about innovation at conferences, on webcasts, at private events and for colleges and universities.
Born and raised in upstate New York, Larry loves the outdoors. He likes exploring new places with his globetrotting family. He holds a BS in computer science from the University of Michigan; and an MS and PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.