Jack Hipple

Jack Hipple is a 30 year veteran of the chemical industry, including responsibility for global chemical engineering research at Dow Chemical as well as its Discovery Research New Ventures program. He has also managed chemical material technology projects for the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, new product development for Ansell Edmont in the protective equipment area, and process scale up for aerogel materials at Cabot Corporation. He currently Principal with Innovation-TRIZ, providing consulting and innovation training.

He has been the public and on site instructor for AIChE and ASME's chemical engineering essentials and Inventive Problem Solving ('TRIZ') for ten years. He has made numerous presentations for the World Future Society, ASTD and PDMA chapters, and the Altshuller TRIZ Institute. His clients have included Dow Chemical, S.C. Johnson, the US Navy, GM, Siemens, FMC, NCH Corporation, Mosebach Manufacturing, Boeing, Lockheed, MEDRAD, SABIC Plastics, NSF, and the US Department of Homeland Security. He was the Engineering Week keynoter for Raytheon in 2008. He was chair of AIChE's Management Division in 2009 and 2010 and was elected to AIChE's Board of Directors for the 2012-14 term and is a member of the Finance and CCPS committees of the AIChE BOD