John Warner

Current

Founder at Empower South Carolina
Fellow at Liberty Fellowship
Board Member at New Carolina, South Carolina's Council on Competitiveness

Founder and Principal at InnoVenture

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Past

CEO at Jute Networks LLC
Director at Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce
President at Swamp Fox LLC

Board Member at Artisphere
Principal at TiBA Solutions
President at Capital Insights LLC
Vice President - Strategy and Communication at KEMET Corporation
Senior Manager at KPMG

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Education

University of Georgia
Clemson University

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Management Consulting

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John Warner’s Summary

My goal is to create the world's premier open innovation platform. I have twenty-seven years of diverse experience as an executive, investor, board member, and adviser to companies and not-for-profits from start-ups to New York Stock Exchange firms in a variety of industries

John Warner’s Specialties:

social networking, innovation, entrepreneurship, web 2.0, commercialization

John Warner’s Experience

Founder

Empower South Carolina

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)
Fellow

Liberty Fellowship

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

Liberty Fellowship seeks to promote outstanding leadership in South Carolina, empowering the state and its future leaders to realize their full potential. Our mission is to offer South Carolina’s next generation of leaders the opportunity to explore the values that sustain them; cultivate respect for both the ideas and beliefs of others; and become significant contributors to our state, and to society at large.
Board Member

New Carolina, South Carolina's Council on Competitiveness

(Management Consulting industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

South Carolina's Council on Competitiveness is a public-private partnership working with partners to increase per capita income and drive the movement towards a New Carolina – a South Carolina with a brighter future and a competitive, winning economy.
Founder and Principal

InnoVenture

(Privately Held; Machinery industry)

2003 — Present (6 years )

InnoVenture is a leader in open innovation. We distinctively combine industry, academia, small and medium sized enterprises, entrepreneurs, service providers, and investors into innovative communities. We work with champions who have large objectives but limited internal resources, and we help them identify and organize relationships with the access to the customers, capital, talent and technology to help them succeed.
CEO

Jute Networks LLC

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2008 — June 2009 (10 months)

While at Jute, I led the development of what is now the InnoVenture platform, a leading open innovation technology platform.
Director

Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

2004 — 2008 (4 years )
President

Swamp Fox LLC

(Media Production industry)

April 2000 — September 2008 (8 years 6 months)
Board Member

Artisphere

(Management Consulting industry)

2004 — 2007 (3 years )
Principal

TiBA Solutions

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — December 2006 (1 year )
President

Capital Insights LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

March 1992 — December 2006 (14 years 10 months)
Vice President - Strategy and Communication

KEMET Corporation

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; KEM; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

December 2000 — June 2005 (4 years 7 months)
Senior Manager

KPMG

(Management Consulting industry)

1982 — 1990 (8 years )

John Warner’s Education

University of Georgia

Masters of Accountanct , Accounting , September 1981 — December 1982
Clemson University

BS Accounting , Accounting , August 1977 — August 1981