Verna Allee, Co-founder and CEO
With more than twenty years of deep experience in value networks, knowledge management, intellectual capital, and new business models, Verna has been a trusted advisor to more than 100 Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, civil society organizations and startups harnessing the power of intangible value for increased efficiency and competitive advantage.

She began her management career in 1975 as co-founder of a networked sign manufacturing company. Frustrated by organizational complexity in her early corporate experiences, she organized the new company as a value network – a radical idea at the time. Within five years, the company was handling large installations from Alaska to Florida and revenue had grown to match some of the largest companies in the industry. Determined to carry her insights into global companies, she developed the ValueNet Works™ methodology, a methodological cornerstone in the field.

Verna is the author of two books and more than 50 industry articles and papers on value networks and knowledge management and is a popular keynote speaker at business conferences around the world. She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, an advisor to the European Commission and sits on a number of Advisory Boards including the Enterprise of the Future project at George Washington University, the Norval Morris Project with the Department of Justice, and Hazel Henderson's Ethical Markets television series on PBS.

She holds a B.A. in Social Science and International Business from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Organizational Leadership and Human Consciousness from JFK University. She is a visiting professor at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business,
and other universities.