Adrian Ott, CEO and Founder

Adrian Ott is CEO and Founder of Exponential Edge, Inc., a leading strategy firm that assists clients with identifying and building new roads to revenue. Based in the Silicon Valley, she and her team have assisted some of the most innovative companies in the world to capture growth and innovation opportunities via market assessment, corporate partnering, and go-to-market services. 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.

She has appeared on PBS and CNBC, and been interviewed by BusinessWeek, SmartMoney, The NY Post and Inc.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).

Currently, she serves as Chair of the Harvard Business School Strategy & Growth Roundtable for Northern California, the largest HBS Alumni Club in the world. She previously served on the boards of the HP Alumni Association and the Software Business Cluster in San Jose.

Adrian holds an MBA from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley. While at U.C. Berkeley she received the Duncan Citation for the highest G.P.A. in her major.