About John Wolpert
John Wolpert has twenty years experience managing teams of creative talent in the entertainment, media, and computer industries. He is currently the CEO of UpStart™, a talent and new business incubator working with companies like Best Buy.
John ran IBM’s “Extreme Blue” incubator in Austin, Texas. Previously, he ran IBM’s alphaWorks team in Silicon Valley, which pioneered the release of emerging research technology for open use over the Internet. In 2003, he was engaged by the Australian Industry Group to build an organization that helps innovators in different companies work together. The project became an international enterprise in 2006.
John’s work on managing innovation is featured in the Harvard Business Review and in several published cases and books. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and received his MBA from Georgetown University.
John’s first novel for middle-grade readers, about a 13-year-old soccer star who gets caught up in an adventure inside a civic theater, is out on Amazon: The Hidden Stage
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