Henning Trill has a passion for new ways to make life better and is vice president of Corporate Innovation at Bayer. In this role he is responsible for Bayer’s Innovation Agenda which is a top-down and bottom up approach to drive innovation. His team supports an innovation Network with more than 800 Coaches across the company, a crowd ideation platform and more than 70 projects through an Intrapreneurship program based on Lean-Startup.

Previously, Henning lead the global R&D Team of Bayer’s Inhouse Management Consulting Unit. Prior to joining Bayer, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group and a start-up in the Lithium Ion Battery space.  Henning studied Physics and Chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität in Münster and at the University of Santa Barbara, California (UCSB).