About the Authors
Scott D. Anthony is a senior partner who has been based in Innosight’s Singapore office since 2010. During that time, he led the regional expansion of Innosight’s consulting business, served as Innosight’s elected managing partner from 2012 to 2018, and oversaw bounded experiments in venture capital and online platforms (Innosight Ventures and Innosight X). Eat, Sleep, Innovate will be the eighth book he has authored or coauthored. His previous work includes Dual Transformation (2017), The Little Black Book of Innovation (2011), and Seeing What’s Next (2004, with Harvard professor and Innosight cofounder Clayton Christensen). In 2019, he was named one of the world’s ten most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, and in 2017 he received the T50 Innovation Award. Scott received a BA in economics, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. He and his wife, Joanne, are the proud parents of four children: Charlie, Holly, Harry, and Teddy. His Twitter handle is @ScottDAnthony.
Paul Cobban has been the chief data and transformation officer at DBS Bank since 2009. Based in Singapore, Paul has led multiple bankwide transformation programs to drive a fundamental cultural change through process reengineering, human-centered design, journey thinking, innovation, data analytics, and artificial intelligence.
His leadership has been a major contributor to the transformation journey that led DBS to becoming the first bank to simultaneously hold the titles Bank of the Year (The Banker), Best Bank in the World (Global Finance), and World’s Best Bank (Euromoney).
As part of his work at DBS, he has helped many international companies, startups, governments, and public sector departments with their own transformations.
Considered one of the world’s leading cultural transformation practitioners, Paul is regularly sought after and asked to share his experiences at global speaking engagements.
Paul currently chairs the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Future-Enabled Skills Work Group and is an IBF fellow. He also sits on the FinTech advisory council for the Institute of International Finance (IIF) and on the board of the European Financial Management and Marketing Association (EFMA).
Prior to DBS Paul worked for Standard Chartered, JP Morgan, and IBM. He holds a first-class honors degree from Aston University, United Kingdom.
Paul is married to Fiona and has two sons, Ross and Ewan.
Natalie Painchaud is the director of learning at Innosight. An experienced strategy and innovation consultant and coach, Natalie has extensive experience developing leaders, including more than fifteen years helping Fortune 500 companies develop the strategies, capabilities, and early proof points required to successfully innovate. She was a faculty member of an accelerated leadership development program for one of the world’s largest healthcare companies for close to ten years and collaborated on the initial design of the program.
As director of learning, Natalie leads Innosight’s internal training strategy by designing and delivering development programs for the global consulting team and professional staff. In her role, she supports broader talent development initiatives, including performance management and leadership training.
Before working at Innosight, Natalie was a senior associate with an MIT-founded executive-education company. In this position, Natalie led a team that developed and presented technology-based prototypes and business cases to hundreds of global CEOs and CIOs who were invited by the sponsoring companies, HP and Oracle.
Natalie holds a BA with distinction in industrial relations from McGill University in Montreal and advanced certification in Executive Coaching from the Columbia University Coaching Program. Natalie lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Jonathan, and dog, Leela.
Andy Parker was elected partner at Innosight in 2017. He has spent his career in management consulting, beginning with Accenture’s Strategy practice, based in London. He moved to Singapore in 2011 to take up a post at Accenture’s Management Consulting Innovation Center. In that role he developed a specialism for helping clients with their innovation-driven growth agendas. That led him to Innosight, where he helps clients navigate disruptive change and set growth strategies. Andy has worked with clients in diverse industries, from higher education to commodity chemicals and cement. He has worked in nearly every market across Asia-Pacific.
Andy’s previous publications include the 2017 Sloan Management Review article “The Next Wave of Business Models in Asia.” Andy served as the lead author of Innosight’s 2019 research report on successful business transformation in Australia and a similar 2020 report on successful business transformation in ASEAN. Most recently Andy authored a report on the imperative for incumbent institutions in Australian higher education to respond to digital disruption.
Andy holds a bachelor of business administration from Bath University’s School of Management, United Kingdom. He lives in Singapore with his wife, Luyuan, and their two young children, Aureli and Agnes.