Hitendra Patel

Hitendra is founder and CEO of IXL Center, a Cambridge-based global innovation consulting firm. He has helped over 200 global companies and their executive teams drive transformation initiatives to build innovation capabilities and get 10X growth results. In 2009, Hitendra created the IXL Innovation Olympics, a global open-innovation consulting program, that helps senior executives with growth challenges tap into solutions from MBA student teams from over across the globe. Over 100 hundred companies and 500 MBA teams have participated in this program and expressed great satisfaction with the results. Hitendra created the IXLerator to help SMEs generate new 10X growth through business ideas adjacent to their core business. It is the largest SME accelerator in the world graduating over 400 companies and a success rate of 60%. Dr. Patel drove the creation of Innovation Standards and Certification to make innovation a management discipline at the Global Innovation Management Institute, a non-profit organization. Over 6000 people have been certified to date around the world. Hitendra helped build the Hult Prize, the world’s largest social-impact start-up accelerator with an annual cash award of $1 Million. He is on the Board of the Hult Prize. Professor Patel teaches at the Hult International Business School, Rotman’s EMBA Program, Yonsei Business School and Thunderbird. He has taught over 5,000 MBA students. Hitendra is an inspirational key-note speaker at international conferences and at executive leadership summits of Fortune 1000 companies. He has written books such as Greenovate!, Connectivate!, Healthovate! and is currently working on DOTS! Hitendra was a senior leader of Monitor Group's and Arthur D Little’s Innovation Practice. Hitendra started his career as a technologist at Motorola and is the owner of six patents. He is also a founder of various venture-backed companies. Specialties: Services: Innovation Consulting & Entrepreneurship