About Us
Creative Innovation & Strategic Capital Allocation
Pomona is Dr. Ricardo V. Pilon's investment and innovation vehicle.
Ricardo builds the bridge between strategic business management, organization design, and the application of artificial intelligence. His specialist work is in elevating business models to tap into new revenue streams through smart processes on Enterprise AI platforms. Most centers on marketplace retailing or B2B selling in unique contexts, using ML & AI to drive CX and stickiness with maximum transactional and long-term value per customer.
Coming up through the ranks as a commercial planning, pricing and revenue management expert, his work experience involved modernizing commercial strategy and digital commerce (B2B) and B2C around recommendations-based customized product/rate offer management using dynamic pricing, bundled offer optimization at integrated business level with the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He then moved from functional to Enterprise level.
He himself is an experienced business executive with practical leadership experience and expertise in corporate & business development, commercial strategy, and modern digital business (MarTech + SalesTech technology in B2B or B2C domains) with a strong focus on profit maximization (pricing, capacity,
and revenue optimization).
More recently, he has started specializing in combining applied organizational psychology in organization design
for modern data-driven enterprises.
The objective is to drive organization design along future business needs, enabled through Enterprise AI for better execution,
taking into consideration people’s 7 emotional systems.
Ricardo also has experience in developing blended learning programs (SDL, ILT, CBT, remote) and has delivered results for 4 employers and leadership teams at over 130 clients in 119 countries. He has also provided practitioner expertise to 8 academic institutions as Assistant or Visiting Professor at Executive MBA and other adult-learning post-graduate programs in Canada, Switzerland, UAE, The Netherlands, and China. He has published business management books and holds the "Cruising to Profits (R)" trademark. He is currently under contract with Routledge in London, UK for his next management book.
While for almost 30 years his original area of focus was on civil aviation and the air transport, cargo and logistics domains, Ricardo’s skills and approach are demanded in different verticals and industries as well as numerous startups today.
Books
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Blog
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