Dr. Robert G. Cooper is a world expert in the field of new product management. He has been labelled "the quintessential scholar" in the field of new products in the Journal of Product Innovation Management and is a Crawford Fellow of the Product Development & Management Association. He is the father and developer of the Stage-Gate process, now widely used by leading firms around the world to drive new products to market. He has helped numerous leading corporations design and implement his Stage-Gate new products process. He is also the developer of the NewProd system for screening and diagnosing new product projects, also used by a number of companies.