John Wolpert is a Chief Product Officer at Valuable, Inc. based in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, North America. Chief Product Officer, Author, Speaker, Board Member Author of "The Two But Rule: Turn Negative Thinking Into Positive Solutions" (Wiley, January 2024). More at jwolpert.com. Spun the first ride sharing company, Flywheel out of Best Buy, led it through two pivots and two rounds of funding. Company was acquired. Helped build 5 commercial ecosystems: Hyperledger Fabric, alphaWorks (online), IXC (R&D), Flywheel (mobile), IBM Watson. Created and ran a consortium of companies in IT, life sciences and healthcare in the US, Australia and the UK. Spent four years overseas leading these and other “open innovation” initiatives. 2 Specialties: 1) Helping teams get unstuck and find creative ways to solve problems, capture opportunities and work better together. 2) Finding and building new products and transformative business models in and around large, complicated organizations. Practical Know-How: 1) Can design and build products and services users love and build a mature product organization that can handle change under pressure and maintain speed, quality and market leadership; 2) Can efficiently build a large, evangelical developer and user community; 3) Can forge collaborative business development opportunities at both research and product stages; 4) Can run a startup or a company's new line of business, get it funded, find the repeatable, scalable business model, and build a team with an amazing culture; 5) Can sometimes spot where rifts between groups of people will form and avoid them before they happen.
Current Position: Chief Product Officer
Company: Valuable, Inc.
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, North America
Social: Professional profiles available
Network: Extensive professional connections