Doug Hall is an author and inventor. He is known for his "Jump Start" book series, as well as for his appearance on the ABC television series American Inventor.
Hall began his inventing career at age 12, inventing and selling a line of magic and juggling kits. After earning a chemical engineering degree from the University of Maine he joined Procter & Gamble where he rose to the rank of Master Marketing Inventor - inventing and shipping a record 9 innovations in 12 months.
Hall is the founder and CEO of the Eureka! Ranch located in Cincinnati with partners in Prince Edward Island, Canada, Finland and Korea. The Ranch is an “invention & research think tank” that specializes in developing and delivering the world's most reliable systems for increasing innovation speed & decreasing risk. For over 25 years they have been working with companies including American Express, Ford Motor Company, Nike, Inc. and The Walt Disney Company.
Doug Hall has spoken at various venues, including the non-profit Central New York Famous Entrepreneurs Series.[1]
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The R&D team of Eureka Ranch have developed an AI system called Merwyn Technology. This system is used to evaluate abstract ideas before additional effort is used to substantiate it. The system was named after Hall's father Merwyn Bradford Hall, who always hated the name Merwyn.