SecondMuse Ushers in 2017 with New Chief Operating Officer

​SecondMuse, a global innovation and collaboration agency, announced today that Joel Carnes will join the company as Chief Operating Officer. Carnes brings to SecondMuse nearly twenty years of wide-ranging corporate and nonprofit experience in strategic and tactical management experience, during which he has led projects in fifteen countries across five continents. In this new role, Carnes will oversee the company’s daily operations and help drive the company’s multi-faceted business growth strategies.

"At SecondMuse, our positive impact comes from the businesses we accelerate as well as from the unique networks we cultivate," says SecondMuse partner Todd Khozein. “The next phase of the SecondMuse evolution is to sharpen our organizational structures and globally scale the incredibly impactful work we’ve done throughout the past decade. Joel’s deep experience and his dedication to the SecondMuse mission will help get us there.”​

Carnes joins SecondMuse, as the company rapidly expands. Known for designing and mobilizing coordinated approaches to complex global challenges and identifying revolutionary opportunities for collaboration and network-centered innovation, SecondMuse has an impressive assembly of partners, including Nike, Inc., NASA, Intel, USAID and the World Bank Group. Previously, Carnes served as the Vice President of Operations and Strategy at XPRIZE where, in only three years, he led the nonprofit innovation engine’s product team to a 400% portfolio increase. 

“The problems that humans face don’t respect the boundaries we’ve created,” says Carnes. “SecondMuse has an impressive history of achievement, and a world-class list of partners and clients, but it was the values-driven culture that really attracted me to this opportunity. Starting from a human-centered approach, we are building an open, collaborative ecosystem that encourages the free flow of information and partnership across our networks, to create a world of beauty and dignity, for all.”

Carnes brings with him an expansive record of integrating, aligning and propelling product research, design and development teams at multiple global entertainment corporations. Beginning in 2010, Carnes served in various strategic management capacities at Disney Interactive Media Group, Walt Disney Imagineering and Activision. During his four years as the Director of Operations and Client Services at Trifecta, an online training platform for clinical study investigators, Carnes integrated technology solutions and developed key operational processes. Additionally, he managed the development of Nestle USA’s corporate intranet and has served as a consultant in media, software and human capital management for high-profile, international brands, across multiple sectors, including Boeing and Motorola. Carnes earned a B.A. in Social Ecology from University of California, Irvine, and is a frequent speaker on advanced work in Leadership, Organizational Design and Exponential Technologies.

SecondMuse

SecondMuse is a certified B Corporation, a pioneering innovation and collaboration company that uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. Since 2009, SecondMuse has teamed up with high-impact partners and brands, including NASA, Intel, Google, NIKE, Inc., IKEA, USAID, the World Bank Group, and the Australian Aid program, and reached across six continents, to screen more than 30,000 solutions, 13,000 entrepreneurs and prototypes and to accelerate 100+ companies. In addition, SecondMuse’s cutting edge storytelling campaigns empower people to tell authentic stories, that ignite connections and inspire action. Discover additional information about SecondMuse through the company’s digital magazine Issuu and at www.secondmuse.com. Follow SecondMuse on Twitter @SecondMuse and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Secondmuse. 

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Media Contact: Cara Philbin / cara.philbin@secondmuse.com