Stephen Di Biase

Stephen A. Di Biase served as the Chief Executive Officer of Laser Applications Technology (LAT) LLC and is President and owner of Premier Insights, LLC. In both roles he is an entrepreneur building businesses and capabilities from emerging technology. In leading LAT Stephen Di Biase developed the business model and go to market strategies for introducing a disruptive technology for labeling produce. With Premier Insights Stephen Di Biase teaches leaders how to become more innovative by making innovation a discipline they can refine. Over the past 40-year career Stephen Di Biase has become accomplished in application of innovation management in a global commercial setting. He has over 20 patents, has mentored hundreds of technical professionals and taught innovation and human resource management in both corporate and university settings. He has guest lectured at several academic institutions and has authored numerous patents, patents and corporate publications. Prior to joining JohnsonDiversey, Stephen Di Biase spent 26 years with the Lubrizol Corporation, where he held a variety of leadership positions, including general management roles and those with profit and loss responsibility for emerging businesses derived from technology platforms. These global assignments often involved business development from strategy conception to execution managing teams of Sales, Marketing, and Business Development professionals. Stephen Di Biase accepted the assignment in business development while he was the Vice President – Research, Development, and Engineering responsible for the global technical and scientific leadership for a centralized R&D function comprising of 700 professionals, an operating budget of $120+ million, and a capital budget of $10+ million. In this hybrid role Stephen Di Biase fostered the conversion of innovations into new revenues using processes such as stage gates, project and portfolio management, 6-Sigma, and advanced statistics while introducing a variety of IT based tools like data mining and predictive modeling. He demonstrated that transforming innovative concepts into revenues required a deep understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship as processing leading to a discipline. Stephen Di Biase, a graduate from The Pennsylvania State University, retired member of the Board of Trustees for the Mt. Union College, sits on the Science Advisory Board for The Pennsylvania State University, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Industrial Research Institute, a leading experienced-based innovation management association. He has served as chairman of The Lubrizol Foundation Scholarship Committee, Chairman of the Northeastern Ohio Section of the American Chemical Society, Board member of the Cleveland Area Research Directors (CARD) and in The Boy Scouts of America where he served in a variety of posts and has been honored by The Pennsylvania State University College of Science with its 2007 Distinguished Alumni Award.