John Herniman has spent a large part of his career in leadership roles related to technical innovation in optics, semiconductors, and consumer electronics. These roles have included Agilent, Amazon, Apple, British Telecom and Hewlett Packard in both Silicon Valley and the UK. Personal engagement in the community, corporate social responsibility and social innovations led to reflections on how large organisations engage with these efforts. These resulted in research interests (for the last decade) which have focussed on how large corporations socially innovate in addition to their technical innovation activities. John completed his doctoral research at Cranfield University in the UK, investigating the challenges social intrapreneurs face in multinational companies. He currently lectures at HES-Geneve on both Corporate Social Innovation and Quality Management and advises early-stage startups.