Martin Daffner

With over 30 years of experience driving growth and building organizational capability to innovate with firms like Procter & Gamble, Cisco and Avery Dennison, Martin comes with world leading hands-on knowledge and experience turning innovation concepts and ideas into real business outcomes.

Martin has been working with Fortune 500 firms in China to design and deliver incubation and acceleration programs since 2012. More specifically, he designed and rolled out the idea acceleration programs for Intel China’s Ideas2Reality Program, which receive the International Innovation Award in 2017 from Enterprise Asia. Martin also designed and deployed programs for Johnson & Johnson’s Emerging Market Innovation Center and Honeywell China’s Idea Incubator. In 2018, Martin joined the Fung Group’s as the Senior Vice President of their Strategy and Business Practices team.

As a strong believer in growth mindset and continuous development, Martin is also a certified facilitator of the Midnight Lunch creative thinking and innovation methodology. Developed in partnership with the Edison Labs, the Midnight Lunch process directly employs the proven creative strategies and methods developed by Thomas Edison, one of the world’s most prolific innovators.

Education

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) University of Southern California (2010 — 2012)
• Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2010 — 2012)
• Masters of Science Georgia Institute of Technology (1991 — 1993)
• BS Miami University (1987 — 1987)