Jay Paap is President of Paap
Associates, serves on the faculties of the Industrial Relations Center at Cal Tech and the
Executive Program at The Sloan School (MIT), is a Fellow of The Society of Competitive
Intelligence Professionals, and a PDMA Certified New Product Development Professional. He
received his Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management with concentrations in
technology management and organization design.
Dr. Paap has been active in the management of technology for 35 years, and
has consulted with industrial and governmental organizations for over 30 years. Prior to
founding Paap Associates, Jay was Partner at Data and Strategies Group, Principal at
Ampersand Ventures, Director of Corporate Consulting at Venture Economics, and Associate
Director of the Technology Management Group at Pugh-Roberts Associates. Before entering
consulting, Jay was an officer in the US Air Force, responsible for developing and
deploying advanced electronics equipment.
In 1992 he founded and ran the Commercialization Roundtable in which
senior business development managers from major companies met every two or three months
through 1995 to share experiences on corporate venturing and develop best practices
concerning how major corporations can effectively commercialize new technology based
concepts and businesses. Among the members of the Roundtable were AT&T, Digital, Dow,
DuPont, GTE, IBM, MCC, Motorola, and Xerox.
