As a frontline innovation leader with twenty years as co-founder and president of innovation consultancy Fahrenheit 212, then as global head of consumer products at Frog design, and now as co-founder and CEO of Electric, Mark Payne has spearheaded innovation efforts that have created billions in top-line growth for Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial emerging businesses and Private Equity firms. Mark’s insights on innovation’s past, present and future have been captured in the book How to Kill a Unicorn (Random House/Crown Business), and have been featured in leading media outlets including Fast Company, Wired, Fortune, CNBC, BusinessWeek, Monocle and Esquire, and via speaking engagements at Harvard Business School, Wharton, Columbia Business School, NYU, The Royal Society of the Arts, Pratt Institute of Design and HEC Paris. Mark holds a BA cum laude in economics and psychology from Middlebury College, is a member of Mensa, has board roles with Ecologic Solutions and the Teaching Empathy Institute, is a fintech investor, and a mentor to a portfolio of startups.