Jay Paap is President of Paap Associates, a management consulting firm assisting major corporations in a broad range of business and technology development efforts, serves on the faculties of Cal Tech’s Industrial Relations Center, MIT’s Executive Program, is a Fellow of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals and a certified New Product Development Professional.

PAI provides clients an integrated approach to creating the innovative environment in which to grow their businesses and position themselves for the future. We offer consulting services in seven areas:
 

• Business development strategy
• New product development
• Organization of the technical and business development functions
• Corporate venturing
• Technology planning
• Competitive intelligence
• Executive education

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.

He is a frequent speaker on corporate venturing, the management of innovation, and competitive intelligence, appearing in executive-level seminars throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan. He has participated in programs sponsored by MIT, Cal Tech, Business Week, The Management Roundtable, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI), the Product Development and Management Association, the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, the American Management Association, and Nomura Research Institute, as well as internal seminars for over 100 government and industrial organizations. (Listing of speaking assignments)

Dr. Paap received his Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management and has held faculty positions at Sloan and Indiana University. He is a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), and the Product Development and Management Association; and has served on the editorial advisory boards of Technology Management and the Competitive Intelligence Review, where he was guest editor for the 1994 special edition on competitive technical intelligence.