From Atoms to Customers

Associate Director

Being a scientist, management consultant, and innovator, Peng enjoys challenging the status-quo and problem solving with innovative solutions. In her current role at Bayer Foundation as Associate Director for social innovation engagement. Peng is passionate to drive partnerships and programs in the convergence field of healthcare and social innovation, to generate positive societal change. Previously, Peng worked in Corporate Innovation where she drove an Intrapreneurship program based on Lean-Startup, creating substantial digital revenue potential with its 85+ project portfolio. Prior to joining Bayer, Peng studied Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale University, US and Biotechnology at Fudan University, China.

VP Innovation Strategy

Henning Trill has a passion for new ways to make life better and focuses on ecosystems in nutrition and health as the VP Innovation Strategy. In his former role as Head of Corporate Innovation at Bayer he created and implemented Bayer’s Innovation Agenda which is a top-down and bottom up approach to drive innovation across the whole organization. His team supported an innovation Network with more than 800 Coaches across the company, a crowd ideation platform and more than 85 projects through an Intrapreneurship program based on Lean-Startup, creating substantial digital revenue potential. Previously, Henning lead the global R&D Team of Bayer’s Inhouse Management Consulting Unit. Prior to joining Bayer, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group and a start-up in the Lithium Ion Battery space. Henning studied Physics and Chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität in Münster and at the University of Santa Barbara, California (UCSB).