Pretium Innovation, LLC is a Houston, Texas based company with a regional office in Michigan. Pretium consultants are business executives and seasoned TRIZ professionals who bring state of the art innovation techniques, expertise, coaching and implementation skills to help your organization. Our Mission is to be the leading company in the world in the development and application of structured innovation for the creation of sustainable economic value. Mr. Hanik has over 35 years of executive management and technology experience. He has held positions of Senior Vice President Technology, Millennium Chemicals; President and CEO, Millennium Petrochemicals; Vice President Chemicals & Supply Chain, Quantum Chemical; Vice President Reengineering and Information Systems, Quantum Chemical; Director Applied Research & Technical Service, Quantum Chemical; Regional Sales Manager, Northern Petrochemical; Engineering Manager, Northern Petrochemical; Production Superintendent, Northern Petrochemical. Former Board Member, Executive Committee Member, and Petrochemical Mr. Malkin is a well-know TRIZ Expert, trained by the method's founder, Genrich Altschuller and has more than 25 years experience of TRIZ application, organization TRIZ&VE departments in different organizations. He has held positions of Director of Software Development, Ideation International Inc; CEO, Private Enterprise Eurotecton; VP TRIZ&VE, Foton Corp. R. Scott Evans begin of the skype highlighting end of the skype highlighting, Ph.D. Vice President Business Development. Scott Evans begin of the skype highlighting end of the skype highlighting is an engineer, technologist and an entrepreneur with experience in a variety of roles and environments. He has taught cross-listed graduate-level courses in technology commercialization and coordinated the Idea to Product technology commercialization program. He cofounded a materials and manufacturing company based on his Ph.D. research, which partially funded his doctoral studies. His industrial experience includes manufacturing and product engineering Reynolds Industries and Thermax/CDT, Inc His research at The University of Texas and Georgia Tech included technology entrepreneurship, product design, MEMS, materials science and manufacturing. Dr. Bonner has been Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Cabot Corporation, Global Director of Technology at Rohm & Haas, Vice President Research & Development, The Chao Group International, Vice President Research & Development, Premix, Inc, and Vice President Research & Development, B. F. Goodrich Company. Dr. Bonner has been a pioneer in the application of TRIZ technology in the chemical industry. Early in his career, Dr. Bonner was Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University and Texas A&M University. Galina Malkin begin of the skype highlighting end of the skype highlighting TRIZ Specialist. Galina received her MS degree in Biology in Simferopol State University ( Tavrida University ) in 1986. In this same year, she first encountered TRIZ at the seminar of G. Altshuller. From that point, not only did she use TRIZ in her scientific work as a molecular biologist, but she also taught the methods of TRIZ to different age groups ranging pre-school to college students and business personal. Her programs were used to teach pre-school students in Latvia SSR. Since in 1994, she lives and works in USA. She worked for major companies and universities such as the University of Michigan, Cayman Chemical, Pfizer, and Wayne State University. In 2006 she joined Pretium and successfully works as a business consulter and Pretium Methodology Developer. With Sergey Malkin and Don Coates begin of the skype highlighting end of the skype highlighting, Professor of Kent State University, she has published an introduction to Pretium Methodology for colleges and universities in The Unit