Thomas A. Cripe

Thomas is currently Head of Business Development for Innventure. He is heavily involved in building and managing new strategic relationships for the identification of new technologies that have the potential to form the basis for new Innventure Companies.

In 2018, he retired from Procter & Gamble (P&G) after a 32-year career which culminated as Director, Global Business Development. Reporting to P&G’s Treasurer, Controller, and EVP he was responsible for executing the Business Development strategies of a $40B business. During his 15-year tenure in Global Business Development, he helped oversee a wide array of inbound and out-bound deals.

He joined P&G in 1985 where Tom held various senior roles in R&D which included leading a team of 65 global researchers and he is a listed inventor on ~60 different patents. Tom holds a Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry.