Peter Flentov

Current

Regional Director at PDMA
Principal at 20/20 Innovation LLC

Past

Chapter President at PDMA New England Chapter
Consultant at DSM
VP of Marketing at Intelisphere

Vice President at Product Genesis
Consultant at John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.)
Managing Consultant at Sybase/OASiS
Director, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Systems at The Timberland Company
Managing Consultant at Coopers & Lybrand
Supervisor at Ernst & Whinney

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Education

University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Settlers High

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Industry

Management Consulting

Peter Flentov’s Summary

Peter is a Founding Partner of 20/20 Innovation, a strategic innovation and business renewal consultancy. He has over 20 years of experience helping companies identify and implement value-based strategies that allow them to achieve sustainable growth and enhance shareholder value. Providing careful analysis and fresh insights, helps lead companies through extensive market and customer investigation and competitive analysis to evaluate their current business activities, gauge future opportunities and to develop business strategies and operational plans to help achieve long term success. Specifically, he has helped companies such as the DOE’s UEA, AT&T, DEC, Stanhope Home Products, BBN, Genetics Institute, Astra Pharmaceuticals, Medrad and John Deere assess market opportunities, perform market expectation and competitive analyses, and develop value propositions and business models to effectively deliver customer value. He has extensive experience in customer needs analysis and requirements definition.

Prior to 20/20 Innovation he was on the management team at Product Genesis, a product strategy, design and development consultancy spun out of MIT’s Innovation Center. While at Product Genesis he developed BreakPoint Innovation™, a method for repeatable and reliable innovation. This framework has been enhanced and expanded into 20/20 Innovation’s Innovation Catalyst™ and Innovation Catapult™ methodologies for strategic innovation.

Peter is the founder of PhatRat Technologies, Inc. and is a co-inventor on eight issued patents. He has Computer Science and Commerce degrees from the University of Cape Town, and has published numerous articles on cost management and strategic performance measurement.

Peter Flentov’s Specialties:

Innovation and business renewal; market assessment and strategy development; value proposition development and brand positioning.

Peter Flentov’s Experience

Regional Director

PDMA

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Principal

20/20 Innovation LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

20/20 Innovation provides the following innovation and business renewal services:
- White space innovation for creating new value
- Strategic innovation for exceptional performance
- Value proposition development and positioning for competitive advantage
- User research for powerful insights into customer needs
- Creative problem solving to extract breakthrough insight, and
- Implementation road mapping to link insight to action.
Chapter President

PDMA New England Chapter

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

May 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 8 months)
Consultant

DSM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DSM; Chemicals industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years )
VP of Marketing

Intelisphere

(Management Consulting industry)

2003 — 2003 (less than a year)
Vice President

Product Genesis

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

June 2001 — June 2003 (2 years 1 month)
Consultant

John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MFC; Financial Services industry)

1996 — 2000 (4 years )
Managing Consultant

Sybase/OASiS

(Management Consulting industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )
Director, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Systems

The Timberland Company

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TBL; Consumer Goods industry)

January 1993 — February 1995 (2 years 2 months)
Managing Consultant

Coopers & Lybrand

(Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

September 1986 — January 1993 (6 years 5 months)
Supervisor

Ernst & Whinney

(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

1983 — 1986 (3 years )