Predictiv Network
Predictiv's network spans the globe. Our reach extends from traditional economic powerhouses - the United States and Europe - to upcoming industrial giants - Brazil, Russia, India, and China - bringing the expertise of seasoned and proven business practices to anywhere they are needed.
Founder
Jonathan Low
Jon is a Partner and Co-founder of Predictiv Consulting and PredictivAsia. Predictiv assists corporations, government agencies, family-owned businesses, and not-for-profits improve management performance, organizational effectiveness, marketing, and strategy. Predictiv has particular expertise in evaluating the impact on financial results of factors such as strategy execution, reputation, organizational effectiveness, brand, innovation, and post-merger integration. Clients have included Southwest Air, Pfizer, Major League Baseball, Petrobras, General Motors, UPS, United Technologies, Trump Holdings, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Novartis, and Visa.
Earlier in his career, Jon took a leave of absence from the investment firm High Street Associates to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor (Acting) for Work and Technology Policy. Jon served on the US Securities and Exchange Commission Steering Committee on the Future of Accounting and Financial Reporting, the Conference Board Working Group on Corporate Performance, and represented the US Government at the inaugural Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Conference on Corporate Governance.
Prior to founding Predictiv, Jon was a Senior Fellow at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation. Under his leadership, CGEY produced major business strategy reports including Measures That Matter, Success Factors in the IPO Transformation Process, and The Value Creation Index. He organized and co-hosted with Forbes ASAP an annual conference entitled Measuring the Future.
Jon has served in a number of positions related to his work such as Co-Chair for Strategic Organizational Issues of The Brookings Institution's Task Force on Intangible Sources of Value. He has presented his findings to the SEC, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the European Commission, Chinese Ministry of Technology, and the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
His work has appeared in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Management Update, New York Times, and Business Week. Jon has appeared on ABC, CNN, CNBC, PBS, and other electronic media. He was co-editor of Enterprise Value in the Knowledge Economy, a joint publication of the OECD and Ernst & Young in 1997. He co-authored the book Invisible Advantage, published by Perseus Press in 2002. He has contributed chapters to Business Power; Creating New Wealth from IP Assets (Wiley, 2007) and From Assets to Profits (Wiley 2009).
Jon currently serves on the Board of the Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College whose Nominating Committee he chairs; is a Director of the Athena Alliance, a Washington, DC-based policy research organization; a Director of Classical South Florida, an NPR affiliate radio station; is a member of the Audit Committee of American Public Media Group, a Faculty member of the Reputation Institute Management Training Program, a member of the Palm Beach County Ethics Initiative and a member of the Advisory Committee to the Baccalaureate Degree Program at Palm Beach State College. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale University's School of Management.
Associates
Vincent Leung
Vincent is a Hong Kong native and is a co-founder of PredictivAsia. He has held senior management positions in Singapore, Shenzhen, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong with Areopa, Epson, KPMG, InterContinental Hotels, and YTC Group. His areas of expertise include intellectual property intelligence and protection, business development, environmental protection, corporate planning, and HR development. Vincent served advisory roles with the Chinese Quality Brand Protection Committee and the Worldwide Employee Relocation Council and is now active with the Knowledge Capital International Union and the Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Forum. He is a graduate of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (MS in Knowledge Management and Diploma in Management Studies) and the Southern California University for Professional Studies (MBA). Vincent frequently speaks at seminars in China.
Zhang Yang
Yang is a co-partner of PredictivAsia and is an assistant professor in Northeast University of Finance and Economics in China, specializing in intangible assets‚ measurement, and management. Yang has a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and has been a guest researcher in Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich. She has worked for the China Chapter of The International Emergency Management Society from 2009 to 2010. She has helped enterprises develop their business with her latest scientific research production and has carried out some successful consulting programs with an international view and practical experience as well.
Karin Grasenick
Karin is the founder of convelop and graduated in Sociology and Technical Mathematics. Her doctoral thesis was on biomedical instrumentation which led to the foundation of the company "cnsystems," which was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Innovation. For four years Karin Grasenick taught "Industrial Economics" at the FH Joanneum and was project manager for introducing innovative forms of learning to companies. Following this she worked for the research organization JOANNEUM RESEARCH as, among other things, senior researcher on subjects such as qualifications and employment. As a member of the work's council she played a leading role in developing the ethics contract which is now part of the collective agreement for research organizations. Her core competence is as a creative mind who is always good for surprises. She is not just good at developing new ideas but getting them implemented and accepted. She is a balanced moderator making sure all opinions are heard.