About us
Faro helps organizations transform their culture. Most companies have spent their organizational resources creating a culture of efficiency, cutting waste in order to survive in a hypercompetitive world, and yet that is still not enough. Leading organizations today need an innovation strategy, which allows them to seek and develop new opportunities, often in adjacent markets or using new technologies and business innovations from other completely unrelated industries. “Stick to our knitting” no longer works as competitive advantage.
Faro’s unique program combines expert coaching, hands-on development learning activities, and a clear methodology for creating and launching an innovation strategy. At its core, the Faro program is built on Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Methodology. Beyond that, Faro adds twenty years of experience developing corporate innovation and running startup acceleration programs in Asia.
Bill Randall
Bill brings a unique blend of entrepreneurial, senior corporate management, and MBA lecturing to his consulting and training practice. In addition to his passion for professional development and education,he was the founder of a boutique private equity platform focused on impact-oriented business ventures.
Bill also sits on the Advisory Board of Stone Lotus Ventures, an Asian based venture capital platform focused on health and wellness. He continues to lead the entrepreneurship program at Thammasat University’s graduate business school, where the Lean Start-up methodology is core to the curriculum. He is skilled at assisting organizations, teams and individuals to develop the leadership, the culture of innovation and the strategies to cultivate new business ideas and transforming them into commercial success.
Edward Rubesch
Edward Rubesch has a mixture of practical and academic entrepreneurial experience. He uses his 30 years of innovation experience to build innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems in developing regions.
He runs an accelerator and innovation development program with MIT's Enterprise Forum, runs the Global Social Venture Competition with UC Berkeley and is the Program Director of the Innovation Driven Entrepreneurship Center at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. The accelerator that he designed and runs for teams across Southeast Asia selects high potential teams to visit MIT and UC Berkeley every year. Ed holds a PhD focused on entrepreneurial border trade, and has founded four companies which he still leads.