Episode 2: Ryan Thomas - Vice President, Innovation at the JM Smucker Company

Host Sean Ammirati, Co-Founder and Director of the Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab, sits down with Ryan Thomas Vice President, Innovation at The J.M. Smucker Company.    

As a leader of innovation within a $8B Food, Beverage & Pet company, Ryan provides great perspective.  There's a ton of lessons here both for how to do innovation inside a consumer-facing brand like Smucker's, as well as just generally how large companies should approach these processes.  You'll also see many similarities if you're a traditional entrepreneur to the lean startup methodology and design thinking.

Show Links:

  Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab https://www.corporatestartuplab.com/

  Learn more about Ryan https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-thomas-0960831/ 

  Learn more about Sean https://www.seanammirati.com/