Primary Job Title Co-President and Co-founder Primary Organization 
Nottingham Spirk
Location Cleveland, Ohio, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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John Nottingham is Co-President of Nottingham Spirk, a leading business and product innovation firm founded by John Nottingham and John Spirk in 1972. He and the NS team use the Vertical InnovationTM process in collaboration with their client/partners to deliver product platforminnovations resulting in over 1,000 commercialized patents over
$50 Billion in combined sales for their clients.
The NS innovation team has co-created such award winning innovations as SpinBrush, the largest selling powered toothbrush line; Swiffer SweeperVac; Scott’s Snap Spreader System; Dirt Devil / Hoover products; Sherwin-Williams Twist & Pour, named one of the Top 10 Package Innovations of the Decade; Troy-Bilt FLEX, the first modular outdoor power equipment system; ViewRay, the first MRI guided radiation therapy device; and CardioInsight EC Vue, the first non-invasive electrocardiographic mapping system recently acquired by Medtronic.
John Nottingham serves on the Cleveland Clinic Board of Trustees, Case Western Reserve University Technology Commercialization Board, boards of CWRU think[box] maker space, Global Center for Health Innovation, Great Lakes Biomimicry, Cleveland Institute of Art and University Circle Inc., as well as several private equity company boards of directors.
John has presented numerous times on the subject of breakthrough innovation, and has shared speaker platforms with Neil Armstrong, Colin Powell and Clayton Christensen, author of “The Innovator’s Dilemma.” He has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, NBC Nightly News, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Japan Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, New York Times, Wired and Fast Company.
