Ralph G. Trombetta
Ralph G. Trombetta is the Managing Partner and Founder of Value Innovation Associates. Trombetta is a Blue Ocean Strategy expert and senior strategist in Professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s Blue Ocean Strategy Network. Trombetta was an original member of the professors’ development core team prior to the launch of the Blue Ocean Strategy book in the early 2000s. He is an Adjunct Professor of Management at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University in NYC.
He was formerly a Vice President and member of the Executive Committee at Emergence Consulting, a global strategy consulting firm, and Principal in Renaissance Strategy, creators of the Balanced Scorecard. Ralph also held a series of management and staff positions at IBM in marketing & sales, services, management information systems and was one of the original members of the IBM Consulting Group.
Ralph has over thirty years of business experience working across a diverse set of industries with particular emphasis on strategy and growth, customer management, and business alignment. He has designed and facilitated executive workshops in the US, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia working with management teams ranging from Fortune 10 to family-held businesses.
Ralph has a passion for teaching and is a frequent lecturer on Blue Ocean Strategy and Value Innovation in Executive Education programs both at universities and within corporations. He is an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University where he teaches in the MBA and EMBA programs and has been a regular visiting Professor at the Dom Cabral Foundation in Sao Paolo, Brazil. He has had two papers selected for presentation at the Strategic Management Society (2004 and 2006). Click here to read an interview that Ralph gave to the Smart Business Network or here to listen to a radio show that he gave to the Westchester Business Council. To view an article that the Westchester Business Journal wrote about Trombetta, click here.
Ralph regularly delivers workshops and talks at conferences including:
- Frost & Sullivan Growth Strategies 2003: 2nd Annual Executive Summit
- Presentation with Eric Melin, VP of DuPont Performance Coatings at Conference Board’s Integrated Marketing Conference, “What to Do When A Competitor Threatens Your Integrated Marketing Platform”
- Keynote address at the 26th annual 2003 Conference On Management & Executive Development
- Paper selected for presentation at the 2004 Strategic Management Society (SMS) conference: “Teaching Line Managers How to Become Better Strategists”
- Keynote talk at the Northeast Regional EMBA conference in NYC
- Keynote talk at Fiserv SourceOne’s Customer Executive Advisory Board
- Blue Ocean Strategy MBA workshop at the Lincoln LTC 100 senior management conference in health care
- Keynote commencement address at Pace University’s Executive Leadership & Development program
- Blue Ocean Strategy keynote speech and value innovation workshop at ALSTOM Power Inc.’s worldwide management meeting
- Keynote talk to Georgia State University’s Marketing Roundtable in Atlanta
- Blue Ocean Strategy executive education seminars, Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Blue Ocean Strategy Keynote Talk, Westchester Business Council “Books to Bank On” Author Series
- Blue Ocean Strategy Keynote talk to Cox Communications’ Marketing Leadership Roundtable
- Blue Ocean Strategy workshop at Home Care 100 conference, Phoenix, Arizona
- Keynote talk delivered to PMRG spring conference, Las Vegas, NV
- Breakfast seminar for Baldwin Wallace’s Professional Development Series, Cleveland, OH
- Blue Ocean Strategy executive education seminar for Visanet, Sao Paolo, Brazil
- Keynote talk at Yellow Pages Association annual meeting, Orlando, FL
- Blue Ocean Strategy workshop at Theater Communications Group annual conference
- Blue Ocean Strategy keynote talk at Goizueta School of Business, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
- Key note talk at the Denver BIXPO event, Denver, CO
- Paper selected for presentation at the 2006 Strategic Management Society (SMS) conference: “The Blue Ocean Strategy Process in Action”
- Keynote talk at the Hardwood Manufacturers Association National Conference & Expo, Charleston, SC
- Blue Ocean Strategy program for Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (Belgium) MBA students in NYC
- Blue Ocean Strategy Workshop at the VNAA’s 25th Annual Meeting & Reunion, Palm Desert, CA
- Keynote talk at Dom Cabral Foundation’s “Frontiers of Management Program”, Sao Paolo, Brazil
- Keynote talk at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Green Bay, WI
- Blue Ocean Strategy program for Cornell-Queen’s Executive MBA program
- Blue Ocean Strategy workshops for senior executives at Banco Itau, Sao Paolo, Brazil
- Two-day innovation module in Baldwin-Wallace’s Leading and Executing Innovation curriculum, Cleveland, OH
- Two day Blue Ocean Strategy program in Singapore
- Keynote talk to the Outdoor Power Equipment Association
- Keynote talk to the Florida Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (FAHSA)
- University of Dayton, Center for Leadership, Blue Ocean Strategy: Value Innovation for the 21st Century
- ADICO, Associazione Italiana Per La Direzione Commerciale, Vendite e Marketing, Milano, Italy
Ralph holds an MBA degree from New York University, Stern School, with distinction and a BS degree in mathematics and computer science from Pace University, summa cum laude. He has participated in strategic management programs at Wharton, Harvard, INSEAD, and the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Industrial Design School.
Ralph resides just outside of New York City in Westchester County, NY