Dr. Henning Trill has a passion for new ways to make life better and focuses on ecosystems in nutrition and health as the VP Innovation Strategy. Since 2016 his team has supported and enabled Bayer’s employees to innovate in what they do. To make this happen, they developed an internal Innovation Ecosystem involving more than 40.000 employees on online platforms, 1000 part-time coaches in the Innovation Network, and 80+ new business projects in the Catalyst Entrepreneurship Program. 

Before heading Corporate Innovation, Henning led Bayer’s Inhouse Consulting R&D team, worked in a Lithium Ion Battery start-up with the Boston Consulting Group, and got a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the WWU Münster.