Joseph Maliekal

Joe Maliekal has served as AbbVie’s commercial innovation lead in the U.S. since 2013. In this role, he has built out the organization’s innovation capacity and is responsible for leading innovation capability building and annual programming. He has trained more than 300 innovation champions and leaders and led more than 100 innovation projects over the years, from incremental to disruptive innovation.

Joe has also developed and scaled AbbVie’s Digital Lab with a focus on implementation, strategic roadmap development and innovation and agility training. In addition, Joe developed, launched and activated multiple diversity and inclusion programs with executive teams and frontline commercial leaders.

Prior to his time at AbbVie, Joe held sales, marketing and engineering roles at Abbott before becoming their commercial innovation director in 2007.

Joe has a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois Chicago and an MBA in marketing from Loyola University Chicago. He is an avid Chicago sports fan and currently resides in Lake County.