Edward Phelan is the Founder and Chief Accelerator of Trinovations Group. He is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, CT and has an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Prior to founding Trinovations Group, Mr. Phelan was on the senior executive team at Satyam Computers, an India based organization that went from $300M to $2.5 Billion in revenues and from 8,000 to 54,000 personnel during his 4 year tenure.

As VP, Global Head of Strategy SSU and VP of the US Business Consulting Practice for Satyam, he witnessed firsthand how certain strategic decisions, product innovation pursuits and channel development efforts led to “explosive” growth. Satyam during that time was renowned as the world’s fastest growing services company as they launched hundreds of new market solutions with channel partners across many industry sectors and new geographic markets.

Mr. Phelan’s specialist background in the field of innovation began in the late 1990’s under the tutelage of John Seely Brown, the renowned thought leader who led Xerox’s legendary Parc Research Center. Mr. Phelan co-managed a $120M business unit at Xerox Corporation that had a primary mission to generate early client interest and adoption of many new collaboration, document management, knowledge management and eBusiness technologies invented at Parc Research Center. Since then, much of his career has revolved around creating, building and selling next generation type of products and solutions in nanotechnology, information technology, surgical and medical device, health services, biotechnology, life sciences and alternative energy markets. 

As a prior CEO and senior executive of several ground breaking technology and software firms, he understands the challenges of financing new businesses, developing sound business strategies, managing product development efforts and launching new technologies into competitive industry markets. His first health care start-up, Harborside Healthcare was financed with $1 million and sold to a PE firm for $250 Million seven years later.  Visicu, a healthcare platform firm, where he was the initial VP of Strategy and Marketing went public 5 years after its initial VC round at a $750M valuation and a $100M gain.

When a client needs specialized services or supplemental validation insight that extend beyond the capabilities provided by Trinovations Group personnel and its extended collaboration team, the company draws upon their extensive network of professionals in the fields of engineering, robotics, medicine, software development, law, tax and accounting to provide clients the service they need. Trinovations Group considers the relationships with these people to be some of their most valuable assets. We look forward to hearing from you to see if we have the resources you need to propel your firm's revenue growth.

Edward Phelan is the Founder and Chief Inventor of Trinovations Group. A seasoned strategist and innovation expert, Mr Phelan has spent the last 25 years advising some of the world’s most prestigious organizations as well as managing high growth startups. He launched his first health care startup, Harborside Healthcare, right out of Harvard Business School, a firm which had a $250 Million dollar exit seven years later. As a prior CEO and senior executive of several ground breaking technology and software firms, he understands the challenges of financing new businesses, developing sound business strategies, managing product development efforts and launching new technologies into competitive industry markets.

Prior to founding Trinovations Group, Mr. Phelan was on the senior executive team at Satyam Computers, an India based organization that went from $300M to $2.5 Billion in revenues and from 8,000 to 54,000 personnel during his 4 year tenure. As VP, Global Head of Strategy SSU and VP of the US Business Consulting Practice for Satyam, he witnessed first hand how certain strategic decisions, product innovation pursuits and channel development efforts led to “explosive” growth. Satyam during that time was renowned as the world’s fastest growing services company. Mr. Phelan also held senior level consulting roles at Big 6 firms and corporate consulting organizations. His specialist background in the field of innovation actually began in the late 1990’s under the tutelage of John Seely Brown, the renowned thought leader who led Xerox’s legendary Parc Research Center. Mr. Phelan co-managed a $100M business unit at Xerox Corporation that had a primary mission to generate early client interest and adoption of Parc’s new collaboration, document management, knowledge management and eBusiness technologies. Since then, much of his career has revolved around creating, building and selling next generation type of products and solutions.