Dr. David R. Jones is Ezassi’s Chief Research Officer and oversees a team of Innovation Analysts for research and development of cutting-edge solutions that enable clients to accelerate their innovation outcomes and achieve strategic goals. Dave and his team deliver both tactical and strategic innovation solutions across multiple industrial verticals such as consumer goods, healthcare, and energy.  
 
Dave is an expert in the field of Innovation Management and collaborative ecosystem development. He has a broad range of skills leading cross-functional teams across the full sphere of Innovation Management practices. Dave leverages his more than 20 years of collaboration with Fortune 500 companies ensuring his clients have access to world class Innovation Management processes and technologies. His technical skills and scientific background provide Ezassi with unique insights into the innovation environment by leveraging Ezassi’s proprietary platform, solver network, and expertise. 

Dave possesses a well-defined and proven toolbox including technical problem definition and brief preparation, NDA facilitation and external technology/subject matter expert outreach, RFP facilitation and campaigning, and collaborative research agreement facilitation and management. Dave has both broad and deep experience in helping clients find solutions to their unmet technical and business needs which exist outside their own walls.  

Finally, Dave is also a well-recognized technical expert in the Life Sciences area with a B.A. in Biochemistry from Bowdoin College and a Ph.D. in Organic / Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania.