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Brett Trusko
President and CEO
International Association of Innovation Professionals

Brett Trusko is the Founder and CEO of the International Association of Innovation Professionals (IAOIP). The IAOIP is the first not-for-profit, transparent, independent certification body for innovation professionals. Based on the concept of “Innovation Science”, the Association, through its multiple working groups has developed and continues to refine the IBok (Innovation Body of Knowledge). The Association consists of individual, corporate and academic members dedicated to the development of Innovation as a professionally recognized discipline/ 

In addition to the Association, Brett is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Innovation Science, which has been published as an academic Journal since 2007 and is indexed by most major indexing organizations. He is the author of the PROSE Award winning (technical and engineering category) book, The Global Innovation Science Handbook (2014). 

He is an assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. He is also the director of A&M's Healthcare CoLab, which is a space dedicated to the development of cross discipline collaboration in healthcare innovation.

He is frequently travelling around the world as a consultant and professional speaker on innovation and entrepreneurship.