Adrian Ott

Adrian Ott is CEO of Exponential Edge, Inc., a leading strategy firm that assists global clients with identifying and building new roads to revenue through market assessment, corporate partnering and go-to-market services. Clients include Microsoft, HP Symantec, Sun, C-Cor, BEA, and SunChemical in addition to other companies. Based in the Silicon Valley, her firm was named as a leading San Francisco Bay Area professional services firm by the WIC organization based on respect by peers and clients.

Ms. Ott has appeared on PBS and CNBC, and been interviewed by BusinessWeek, The NY Post, SmartMoney and MSN.com. She has authored a number of articles in national publications and is a frequent speaker at industry events. She lectured on value creation and innovation for an Executive MBA Program for 5 years.

Prior to founding Exponential Edge, Ms. Ott worked at Hewlett Packard for over 15 years. While at HP, she managed a $1.5 billion dollar portfolio of strategic alliances, and led a business unit that bridged HP to the Silicon Valley innovation community. Ms. Ott was honored in an HP Annual Report for "Infusing HP with new revenue streams, new technologies and new business models." She also worked in Corporate Strategy at AT&T (Formerly Pacific Bell).

She currently serves as Chair of the Harvard Business School Strategy & Growth Roundtable for Northern California, the largest HBS Alumni Club in the world.

Adrian holds an MBA from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

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