Professor Henry Bolanos

Professor Henry Bolanos
Chairman

Professor Henry Bolanos is the former VP of R&D for US Surgical Corporation and is world-renowned for his invention of laparoscopic or “key hole” surgery – the most fundamental surgical advance of the 20 th Century, saving countless lives and revolutionizing surgical techniques. Professor Bolanos is the named inventor on over 110 US patents in surgical instrumentation and other fields.

His career has included corporate assignments in R&D for surgical instruments, microelectronics, telephones, child development products and UHF tuners. Currently, Professor Bolanos is a consultant on creativity and new product development to a number of Fortune 500 corporations, advising specifically on new product introduction and innovation.

He is a sought after guest speaker for corporations and organizations around the world and serves as a visiting professor at Yale University, the University of Virginia and the University of Auckland.

Professor Bolanos holds a Master of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey . He is the co–author of three books on creativity and new product development, and also serves as an expert witness in patent and product liability litigation.