Hitendra is the Managing Director of the IXL Center & Chair of the Innovation and Growth Program at the Hult International Business School.

Hitendra was a senior leader and co-founder of Monitor Group’s Innovation Practice and was responsible for Asia and Latin America. Prior to Monitor, he was a senior manager at Arthur D. Little. As a management consultant, he has made lasting impact with all types of companies by helping them identify new engines for growth and develop their own capacity to innovate.

Hitendra has also helped and published articles at the national and region level on the topic of economic development in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Singapore, US and the UK.

Prior to consulting, Hitendra worked at Motorola in the portable energy space and is the owner of six patents. He is also a founder of various venture-backed companies.

Hitendra is the co-author of 101 Innovation Breakthroughs and The State of Innovation at the Firm Level in Singapore and in the process of writing his third book on Thinking and Acting Differently to Make Innovation Real.

Hitendra has an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Iowa State University.

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