Iason Onassis

Iason Onassis is a senior member of Monitor Innovation, a Monitor Group company. He was previously a Principal at Arthur D. Little, where he worked in the Technology and Innovation Management practice. Prior to his consulting career he worked for several years at Fokker Aircraft.

Iason works with large companies in various industries, such as consumer electronics, telecommunications, consumer goods, defense industries, resources, and service companies. He has helped companies identify new areas of growth, make informed technology choices, technology strategies and technology in- and outsourcing decisions, build capabilities in innovation –both radical and incremental– and technology management, develop product strategies and plans, globalize R&D, and reduce development lead times. Furthermore he has coached boards and management teams in dealing with innovation in global organizations.

Iason has taught Management of Technology and Innovation at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University and as a guest lecturer at other universities. He speaks at conferences and publishes articles on the subject of innovation and R&D in leading publications such as the Handbook of Business Strategy and Research and Technology Management. He holds a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the Delft University of Technology and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is fluent in Dutch, English, Greek, and has a working knowledge of German.