Simon S. Litvin, Ph.D
Managing Principal & Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Litvin is one of the world's foremost experts on Open Innovation, Value Engineering, and TRIZ, the Russian Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. He has more than 30 years of experience developing, teaching, and implementing innovative methods, and is one of the architects of GEN3’s proprietary methodology, G3:ID™ and TRIZplus™.
Prior to joining GEN3, Dr. Litvin was Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of Pragmatic Vision International (PVI). At PVI, he developed more than 100 breakthrough technologies for the company’s delivery system in Russia and Israel. Before PVI, he was Vice President at Invention Machine Corporation, where he led numerous international consulting projects for Fortune 500 companies such as P&G, Motorola, Intel, Gillette, Honda, and Toshiba.
Dr. Litvin has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Russian Academy of Science, the Institute of Science of Machine Problems in St. Petersburg, Russia. He earned a Masters of TRIZ in 1998 from the International TRIZ Association (MATRIZ) and has over 100 publications to his credit, including six books and more than 20 patents. He is also a member of the Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies, USA, and sits on the boards of MATRIZ and Journal of TRIZ.