About Us

Guided Brainstorming LLC is Michigan based company open in October 2010 and take responsibilities to all TRIZ software developed by Pretium Innovation, LLC.

Our mission continues improvement of TRIZ software to better satisfy our partners and clients.

Galina Malkin

President

1986 M.S. Biology - Simferopol State University (Tavrida University)

Galina first encountered TRIZ at a seminar of G. Altshuller. From that point, not only did she use TRIZ in her scientific work as a molecular biologist, but she also taught TRIZ to different age groups ranging pre-school to college students and business personnel. Her programs were used to teach pre-school students in Latvia SSR. She has worked as a biologist at the University of Michigan, Cayman Chemical, Pfizer, and Wayne State University.

Sergey Malkin

Vice President

1983 MSEE, Sevastopol Technological University

1985 MBA Simferopol Business School, Simferopol, Ukraine
1986 TRIZ Specialist, TRIZ Seminar, Simferopol, Ukraine
1990 TRIZ R&D Specialist, TRIZ Institute, Kishinev, Moldova
1999 Client-Server Application Developer, Goal Training, Detroit, MI
2002 Essentials of Business Development, Regis University MBA Program

Mr. Malkin is a well-know TRIZ Expert, trained by the method’s founder, Genrich Altschuller and has more than 25 years experience of TRIZ application, organization TRIZ&VE departments in different organizations. He has held positions of Director of Software Development, Ideation International Inc.; CEO, Private Enterprise Eurotecton; VP TRIZ&VE, Foton Corp.

Remarks

U.S. Patent Number 5,581,663 “Automated Problem Formulator and Solver”
“TRIZ in Progress” Book with coauthors
Ideation Brainstorming e-Book
Eureka on Demand e-Book
TRIZSoft® v1.0–3.0 software product-lines
Guided Brainstorming e-Book
Guided Innovation Toolkit v1.0-2.0 software