Joseph Nadan

Dr. Nadan is an “Innovation Sherpa”; he invented, innovated and/or worked on many products and services including EZ Pass, CDROM, and 16:9 HDTV for which he received a 2002 EMMY for Scientific and Technological Advancement. He is Professor, Management of Technology and Business Innovation, and Director of the Executive Master’s Degree Programs at New York University Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Nadan is Senior Editor of The International Journal of Innovation Science and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Prior to joining NYU Poly in 2009 he managed and led the US division of London based TORI Global, with consulting practices focused on the management of innovation programs, and organizational leadership and development. Before that Dr. Nadan was Senior Vice President and Global CTO of GTECH, the world’s leading provider of real-time lotteries, CTO of AIG Technologies, and Senior Executive Vice President and COO of the Market Data Corporation affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald, and Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning and New York Operations for the Rich Division of Reuters. During an earlier part of his career he was a tenured Associate Professor of Computer/Electrical Engineering and Assistant Dean of the School of Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York.

Dr. Nadan has a Ph.D. in Computer/Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York followed 13 years later by an Executive MBA in consumer behavior, marketing and strategic planning from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is a business strategy expert specializing in the design, implementation and management of innovation programs. Dr. Nadan is a certified leader of “Art of Innovation” Workshops, and a McQuaig certified behavioral assessment interpreter.