Dave Jenkins

Dave Jenkins

Vice President, Digital Technology and Marketing

Innovation Success

Dave Jenkins runs the marketing and technology curation practice for Iterate.ai. Having been a technologist for 20+ years, with exposure at all levels of deployment, he ran his own studio, was CTO at Backcountry.com just prior to their acquisition, managed professional services and consulting for Red Hat in EMEA and then APAC, directed online strategy for Caleres, and most recently grew a data visualization platform for Vision.Space. Dave is passionate about finding new technology and the unconventional solutions that technology can bring to business. Dave speaks several languages, including fluent Japanese and conversational Korean, Chinese, and Spanish.

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Patents for Iterate.ai


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Patent Pending

Generation of Entity Plans Comprising Goals and Nodes

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March 8, 2023

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United States of America

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B. Sathianathan, J. Nordmark, S. Ray, D. Jenkins, M. Suscak

App. No. 63/489,137

More About Dave Jenkins


My most successful innovation work ...

I helped introduce Red Hat Enterprise Linux to EMEA and APAC, with it's revolutionary 'subscription support' business model that allowed the company to generate ongoing revenue from open source software.


 

An a-ha moment that changed my way of innovating was ...

Failing spectacularly at a sports accessory startup. I still have left-over prototype samples to prove it.


 

My most inspiring project at Iterate ...

"The Daedelus Project" was a class at University where the entire semester was a thought exercise about being stranded on an island and the need to build a plane capable of the 100 fligh back to the mainland-- it tought me practical problem solving, unconventional thinking, and the strength of teamwork.


 

Qualities of an innovator
  • Vision
  • Communication
  • Commitment
Honors
  • Winner for Best Game: US Computer Science Nationals 1986
I could talk forever about ...

Japanese History


 

Why work with Iterate?

The constant search for new technology and guiding the impact that tech can have for our clients is adictive.


 

You may not know about me ...

I own a rare 1977 Vespa Rally200, and can play the guitar backwards.


 

Most inspiring Leader-Innovator(s) ...

Elon Musk


 

What school did NOT teach me ...

Practical economics for making a deal.


 

Free Time

An ever-expanding garden/orchard in the backyard.


 

One Favorite Book

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

by T. E. Lawrence

“All men dream: but nor equally, Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”

Another Favorite Book

The Unfettered Mind

by Takuan Soho

This book taught me how to take away the unnecessary parts of a given challenge. More often than not, many factors are noise or friction. Take away these empty motions, and what remains is the work to be done.

A Third Favorite Book

Physics

by Physics

My father's Physics book, which had all the original long equations. From this, I wrote my first primitive games on an Apple II knock-off in high school.

Favorite Quotes About Innovation

“The safe way is actually the risky way; what appears risky now is actually the safe way.”

~ John Bresse

“Find one in every car, you'll see.”

~ Miller

Favorite Music

Punk Rock, Surf, Jazz

Favorite Movie

Repo Man (1984)


 

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