Jason Alexander, VP Product Planning, Enterprise Growth, American Express

	Jason Alexander

Jason joined American Express in November 2010 as founding member of the Online and Mobile group in Enterprise Growth. This group was established to open new businesses and new audiences for American Express starting with Serve—a peer-to-peer payments and offers platform. With a mixture of user experience, design, technology, mobile, and business backgrounds, Jason is currently leading User Experience, Product Innovation, and the Developer Community for Online and Mobile. Jason’s pre-American Express experience includes Nokia, IDEO, Virgin Mobile, Sapient, and Bank of America—always working in the midst of highly dynamic and rapidly changing industries.

Mark Barngrover, Principal, JAZN Innovation and Design Consultants

	Mark Barngrover

Before establishing his own Innovation consultancy, Mark worked at Procter and Gamble in Design for 21 years. Mark’s career at P&G included a series of exciting assignments starting in Cincinnati, initially as a Design Manager across P&G’s portfolio of brands for over 9 years. In 1997 he moved to Kobe, Japan where he led the Asia design team, building capability to support P&G’s growing Asia wide businesses with a focus on China. His next opportunity found him in Geneva, Switzerland where he built and led the Western and Eastern European Design teams, defining design as a new and diverse business partner with the marketing organization and also building innovation capability within Procter’s five R&D sites across western and eastern Europe. Upon returning to the US, Mark continued to lead the P&G design teams in Asia, Europe and Latin America while based in the US.

Mark is an industrial designer whose experience lies in innovation, organizational development and brand building. His consultancy now works with Fortune 500 companies to build design capabilities and innovation processes to enable development of disruptive, innovative solutions and products to delight consumers and grow business.

Jake Barton, Principal & Founder, Local Projects

	Jake Barton

Jake Barton is principal and Founder of Local Projects, which is the media designer for the 9/11 Memorial Museum, StoryCorps, Change By Us, and the Frank Gehry designed Eisenhower Presidential Memorial. Local Projects is a three-time National Design Award finalist, and was named the second most innovative design firm by Fast Company in 2010 for its redefinition of emotional storytelling. Jake is recognized as a leader in the field of media design for physical spaces, and in the creation of collaborative storytelling projects where participants tell their own stories. Current clients include the BMW Guggenheim Lab, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, Cleveland Museum of Art, Seaworld, and the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. He was once air-lifted out of the Central African rainforest via a French diamond smuggler, but now happily lives on the edge by cycling to his studio in New York City. You can connect with him @jake_barton.

Michael Bierut, Partner, Pentagram

	Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut joined Pentagram’s New York office as a partner in 1990. His clients at Pentagram have included The Council of Fashion Designers of America, The New York Times, The Museum of Arts and Design, United Airlines, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harley-Davidson, Princeton University, the Morgan Library and Museum, Saks Fifth Avenue, and the New York Jets. He has won hundreds of design awards and his work is represented in the permanent collections of museums around the world. In 2008, he was named winner in the Design Mind category of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.

Todd Blumenthal, SVP, Chief Merchandising Officer, Aéropostale, Inc.

	Todd Blumenthal

For the past 28 years, Todd Blumenthal has fine-tuned his expertise in product creation and merchandising with some of the world’s strongest consumer brands: The Limited, Victoria’s Secret, The Gap, Polo Ralph Lauren, Nike and Aéropostale. Steeped in product knowledge from concept to the retail floor, Todd has become a champion of merchandising who clearly understands how merchandising can change a random collection of products into a transforming experience for the consumer.

Todd joined Aéropostale in 2010 as Senior Vice President, Chief Merchandising Officer. He is responsible for the Aéropostale retail business that includes the building of assortments and strategies, as well as overseeing the execution at retail.

Ted Booth, Interaction Design Director, SmartDesign

	Ted Booth

Ted leads the Interaction Design practice and team in Smart Design’s New York office. He directs multi-disciplinary teams at Smart, designing new experiences for a wide range of software experience, consumer electronics, mobile devices, and networked services.

Prior to joining Smart, Ted led interaction design at Motorola Enterprise Mobility for rugged mobile computers, RFID devices, and mobile applications. He was also the Interaction Design Director at Method, a brand experience firm specializing in identity, Web design, and product user interface. He began his design career as an interaction designer at MetaDesign in San Francisco. Ted holds a Master’s of Design from Illinois Institute of Technology and a BA in International Affairs from Lewis and Clark College.

David Butler, VP Global Design, The Coca-Cola Company

	David Butler

David Butler is responsible for how we think and what we do with design at the Coca-Cola Company. He leads the global design vision, strategy and capability for The Coca-Cola Company. Since 2004, he has led the design thinking for some of the world’s most loved and valuable brands.

Coca-Cola has been recognized with numerous design awards including the prestigious Grand Prix from the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. In 2009, David was recognized by Fast Company as a “Master of Design,” building on the Company’s 100-year legacy as a leader in leveraging the power of design to drive innovation and sustainable growth for its business.

David’s career experience includes leading brand, product and experience design with numerous Fortune Global 500 companies. He is a frequent lecturer and strong advocate for design education.

Brian Collins, Chief Creative Officer of COLLINS:

	Brian Collins

Brian Collins is Chief Creative Officer of COLLINS:, a design company dedicated to inventing brand experiences and communications that shape companies and people for the better. Prior to COLLINS:, Brian was Chairman & Chief Creative Officer of the Brand Integration Group (BIG) at Ogilvy & Mather.

Brian’s clients have included Coca-Cola, CNN, Levi Strauss & Co., American Express, Motorola, Mattel, IBM, Amazon.com, MTV, Hershey’s and The Alliance for Climate Protection.

Brian’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Week, ABC News and Fast Company, which named him one of five American Masters of Design in 2005.

He has spoken globally on design and innovation including at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and is a member of the Forum’s Global Agenda Council.

Andrew Cogan, CEO, Knoll, Inc.

	Andrew Cogan

Andrew B. Cogan assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of Knoll, Inc. in April 2001 after serving as Chief Operating Officer since December 1999. Andrew has held several positions in the design and marketing group worldwide since joining Knoll in 1989, including Executive Vice President—Marketing and Product Development and Senior Vice President. Mr. Cogan is also a director of American Woodmark Corporation and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.

Beth Comstock, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, GE

	Beth Comstock

Beth Comstock is Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of GE. She leads the company's organic growth and innovation initiatives, and the sales, marketing and communications functions. She is responsible for GE’s ecomagination environmental business platform, and the newly launched health innovation platform, healthymagination.

She returned to the CMO role after having spent over two years as President of Integrated Media at NBC Universal. Beth oversaw the television ad sales, marketing and research teams, with a focus on new advertising innovations. She led the company's digital media development and distribution, including the formation of hulu.com, Peacock Equity and the acquisition of ivillage.com.

In 2003, she was named GE's first Chief Marketing officer in more than 20 years and as such, helped reinvigorate marketing across the company, introducing ecomagination, Imagination Breakthrough innovations and the "imagination at work" brand campaign.

Previously, Beth held a succession of communications and publicity jobs at GE, NBC, CBS and Turner Broadcasting. She began her career in local television production in Virginia.

Beth is a trustee of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. She is a graduate of the College of William and Mary. She and her husband have two daughters.

Richard Eisermann, Director, Prospect

	Richard Eisermann

Richard is a designer and strategist with almost three decades of professional experience. Trained as an industrial designer, he has led multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural design teams at IDEO, Whirlpool Corporation, and the Design Council. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars, and is currently working with the Big Potatoes design subgroup to develop the London Manifesto for Innovation.

He founded Prospect in 2005 with Anja Klüver in order to focus on creating great customer experiences. Over the years, Prospect has delivered significant bottom line value to clients such as BMI Airlines, Nokia Siemens Networks, Tesco, and Nokia, among others. A key element of Prospect’s current work is the development of design innovation programs for small and medium sized enterprises, in conjunction with regional and national bodies across Europe. These programs have yielded returns of over $10 in gross value added for every dollar spent.

Riley Gibson, Co-founder and CEO, Napkin Labs

	Riley Gibson

Riley is the co-founder and CEO of Napkin Labs, a Boulder-based technology company that is creating tools to bridge the gap between brands and their customers. Napkin Labs’ technology provides a simple platform for companies to create online co-creation communities to run collaborative challenges with influential customers.

Before Napkin Labs, Riley worked at Intel and The Sterling Rice Group where he was involved in a range of innovation projects and initiatives. While not working, he can either be found on his bike, or reading/writing about the state of social media, design, and innovation.

Gerardo Garcia, Global Group Design Director, The Coca-Cola Company

	Gerardo Garcia

Gerardo Garcia is responsible for advancing The Coca-Cola Company’s design capability around the world. In his role, Gerardo provides leadership in developing strategies, talent, tools and processes necessary to leverage Design—both thinking and doing—to create competitive advantage for the world’s most valuable brands.

During his career, he has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies, bridging the gaps between brand strategy, design and execution, creating powerful and lasting business results across analog and digital channels.

Tom Gosline, Senior Director, Experience Design, PepsiCo, Frito Lay Division

	Tom Gosline

Tom leads the Experience Design team for Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo. In this role, he and his team are working to unlock the potential of billion-dollar iconic brands by designing more holistic experiences to delight consumers.

Before joining Frito-Lay, Tom worked for Kraft Foods in the US and Europe across roles in brand management, innovation and consumer insights. Tom holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University, and an MBA from Kellogg.

Sarah Stein Greenberg, Managing Director, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University

	Sarah Stein Greenberg

Sarah Stein Greenberg is helping to lead the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design at Stanford as it emerges from its startup phase. During her first stint at the d.school during its early days, she co-taught the Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability course and led the first season of executive education.

Before returning to head up operations at the d.school in 2010, Sarah worked in the innovation practice of Monitor Group in the US and India and advised multinational companies on developing innovation capabilities. Her background includes developing new products and services in a number of emerging markets in Asia and Africa.

She received an MBA from Stanford University and a BA in History from Oberlin College. She has recently discovered the joys of scuba diving, displaying an embarrassing level of enthusiasm as only an amateur can.

Beverly House, SVP of Design, Aéropostale, Inc.

Since graduating from Parsons School of Design, Beverly House has focused her career on leading the design and product development functions of some of the most commercially successful retail brands of the past few decades, including Calvin Klein, Victoria’s Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, and most recently, Aéropostale.

As SVP of Design at Aéropostale, Inc., she leads a design team that produces guys and girls clothing, accessories, dorm, and yoga for the 14-17 year old.

Randy Howder, Senior Associate, Design Strategist, Gensler

	Randy Howder

As a Design Strategist with Gensler in San Francisco, Randy helps major companies and institutions in the Bay Area and around the world achieve their goals through new approaches to space, user experience, and service delivery. With a professional background in management consulting, architecture, and interior design, Randy believes in design as a powerful tool for progressive change.
 
 

Jamer Hunt, Director,Transdisciplinary Design, Parsons The New School for Design

	Jamer Hunt

Jamer Hunt collaboratively designs open and flexible programs that respond to emergent cultural conditions. He is the Director of the experimental Transdisciplinary Design graduate program at Parsons the New School for Design. He is an expert design blogger for Fast Company and he is co-founder of DesignPhiladelphia, now the largest city-based design festival in the US.

Along with the Museum of Modern Art and SEED Magazine, he co-hosted and collaborated on the symposium Headspace: On Scent as Design in 2010 and MIND08: The Design and Elastic Mind Symposium. His written work engages with the poetics and politics of the built environment and has been published in various books, journals, and magazines, including I.D. magazine, which published his Manifesto for Postindustrial Design in 2005.
 

Everett Katigbak, Communication Designer, Facebook

	Everett Katigbak

Everett Katigbak is a Communication Designer at Facebook. He focuses on brand communication through various media from video, interactive, and environmental design. Prior to joining Facebook, he was an exhibition designer at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, creating environments and interior architecture for a number of internationally touring exhibitions. Everett also taught letterpress printing at Archetype Press in his alma mater, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.

Claudia Kotchka, Innovation Advisor; Former Vice President of Innovation, P&G

	Claudia Kotchka

Claudia Kotchka is a senior executive and change agent who successfully led an innovation culture transformation at Procter & Gamble. Currently she advises Fortune 500 companies on wide-ranging aspects of innovation, design and culture change. Ms. Kotchka is a member of the Board of Directors of Research in Motion (the maker of BlackBerry® based in Waterloo, Ontario), and serves on the Board’s Strategic Planning Committee. She is recognized for integrating design, innovation, and strategy. A pioneer in innovation practices, Claudia is acknowledged for strategic thinking, organizational development, and marketing expertise. She globalized the design capability at P&G by establishing design centers in Geneva, Brussels, Singapore, Guangzhou, Kobe, Caracas, Santiago, and Panama. P&G is now a leader in the strategic use of design for innovation.

In recognition of her leadership, innovation and management expertise, she has received numerous awards, including Innovation Leader from Business Week and Master of Design from Fast Company.

Ms. Kotchka serves on the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian Design Museum at the Cooper-Hewitt in New York City and as an Advisor to the Stanford University Institute of Design in Palo Alto.

Josh Levine, Director of Internal Branding, Liquid Agency

	Josh Levine

For over a decade, brand strategist and noted industry expert Josh Levine has helped global brands engage consumers and empower employees. As Director of Internal Branding at Liquid, he helps organizations live their brand by designing and building culture change programs. Previous clients include HP, Warner Brothers, Microsoft, and Levi’s.

Josh holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Factors from Tufts University, a degree in Graphic Design from the Academy of Art University, and was recently honored with a fellowship for technology and education at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. He regularly speaks, writes, and leads workshops on the intersection of brand and business.

Thomas Lockwood, PhD, President and Founding Partner of Lockwood Resource

	Thomas Lockwood

Thomas Lockwood is the founding partner of Lockwood Resource, a recruiting firm specializing in design and innovation leaders, the editor-in-chief of the DMI Review, and past president of DMI. He is one of the few people in the world with a PhD in design management, and is recognized as a thought leader in the area of integrating design into business and building great internal design organizations. Lockwood is a visiting professor at Pratt Institute in New York City, Fellow at the Royal Society of the Arts in London, design advisor to corporations and to countries, and has lectured and led workshops in over 20 countries. He is the co-editor of three books; Design Thinking, Corporate Creativity, and Building Design Strategy.

Bill Moggridge, Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

	Bill Moggridge

Bill Moggridge is the director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Bill designed the first laptop computer, the Grid Compass, launched in 1982. He describes his career as having three phases, first as a designer with projects for clients in ten countries, second as a co-founder of IDEO where he developed design methods for interdisciplinary design teams, and third as a spokesperson for the value of design in everyday life, writing, presenting and teaching, supported by the historical depth and contemporary reach of the museum.

A Royal Designer for Industry, Bill pioneered interaction design and is one of the first people to integrate human factors into the design of software and hardware. He has been a trustee of the Design Museum in London, Visiting Professor in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art, and Consulting Associate Professor in the design program at Stanford University. He served as Congress Chair for CONNECTING’07, the Icsid/IDSA World Design Congress held in San Francisco in October 2007. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Awards in 2009, and the Prince Philip Designers Prize in 2010.

His first boo,k Designing Interactions, tells the story of how interaction design is transforming our daily lives. His next book, Designing Media, examines the connections between traditional mainstream media and the emerging digital realm. The MIT Press publishes both books.

Samuel Moreau, Director of User Experience, Windows, Windows Live, Internet Explorer

	Samuel Moreau

Sam Moreau is the Director of User Experience for the Windows team. In this role, he is accountable for Design and User Research for the Windows operating system. Sam joined Microsoft in 2006 after spending the first part of his career in Silicon Valley working at a variety of companies, including agencies, startups, and large corporations. Most recently, Sam was at Yahoo! where he was a design director for the media group, designing content sites such as sports, TV, movies, and more. Sam also worked at MetaTV (a startup acquired by Comcast), the pioneering cable broadband company Excite@Home, Diesel Design, and NewMedia Magazine.

Because of his experience in large scale software development, web design, digital media, print, and broadcast TV, Sam has been able to learn and develop a variety of techniques to weave design into a diverse set of product development cultures. In addition, in his role as Director of Design and Research for Windows, Sam has been a part of the emerging Microsoft design language known as Metro style design. Sam will share detailed examples of how a design community across Microsoft has influenced the culture and products with recent examples such as Windows Phone and the highly anticipated Windows 8.

Ryan Pikkel, Design Strategist and Researcher, Doblin, Inc.

	Ryan Pikkel

Ryan Pikkel is a senior design strategist, synthesist, and researcher at Doblin who has worked on projects in India and South Korea as well as within the United States. Ryan has a Masters of Design Degree from the Institute of Design at IIT, where he now serves on the Adjunct Faculty.
 
 

Brian Quinn, Associate Partner, Monitor Group

	Brian Quinn

Brian Quinn is an Associate Partner at Doblin. He helps clients define, develop, and launch innovations and has worked with clients across a broad array of sectors. Formerly a screenwriter in Los Angeles, Brian is fascinated by the power of narrative as a didactic model and change agent.
 
 

Karen Reuther, President, DMI

	Karen Reuther

Karen Korellis Reuther is a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural design leader whose experience includes industry-leading corporations, twelve years at NIKE, design consultancies, owning a small design firm in Munich, Germany, and at Ziba, a worldclass design and innovation firm where she was Director of Consumer Insights and Trends. She is currently the President of the Design Management Institute, an international non-profit, connecting design leaders to the inspiration, knowledge, and community they need to succeed. Karen is a master connector, ensuring that insights translate to real and relevant solutions. As Global Creative Director at NIKE, she led the creative vision and implementation of design strategies from product creation to merchandising across footwear, apparel and equipment that leveraged the power and emotion of trend, color, and materials. Karen has a Bachelors in Industrial Design from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and a Masters in Business from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.
 

Robert Richman, Product Manager, Zappos Insights Division, Zappos.com

	Robert Richman

Robert Richman is the product manager of Zappos Insights, the Zappos Family company dedicated to helping businesses with their cultures. As an intrapreneur, Robert built the model from a proof of concept website to a thriving business helping over 1,000 people every month. Business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs take the Zappos Insights training to discover how a workplace can help people grow, inspire amazing service, and ultimately drive revenue.

Prior to joining Zappos, Robert developed digital marketing strategies for brands including Tony Robbins, Sony, Billboard, and best-selling business authors. Robert co-founded the Affinity Lab, a collaborative workspace for entrepreneurs that continues to graduate over 150 businesses in Washington, DC. He is also a Georgetown-trained leadership coach focusing on company culture, and advises leaders how to create self-sustaining cultures in their own organizations.

Christopher Robbins, Public Artist, The Ghana Think Tank

	Christopher Robbins

Christopher Robbins works on the uneasy cusp of public art and community action, creating sculptural interventions in the daily lives of strangers. He uses heavy material demands and a carefully twisted work-process to craft awkwardly intimate social collaborations.

He built his own hut out of mud and sticks and lived in it while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa; spoke at a United Nations conference about his cross-cultural digital arts and education work in the South Pacific; and has lived and worked in London, Tokyo, West Africa, the Fiji Islands, and the former Yugoslavia. He has exhibited at the New Museum Festival of Ideas, Trade School at the Whitney Museum, the National Museum of Wales, PERFORMA 07, Nikolaj Kunsthallen Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, and been awarded residencies/ fellowships from Skowhegan, MacDowell Colony, Haystack, Penland, and Anderson Ranch, among others.

The Ghana Think Tank, which he co-founded in 2006 with John Ewing and Matey Odonkor, was a finalist for the Frieze Foundation Cartier Award in 2010, and was awarded the Creative Time Open Doors commission for Public Art at the Queens Museum of Art in 2010. He teaches sculpture and socially-mediated public art at SUNY Purchase College, New York.

The Ghana ThinkTank is a global network of think tanks with members in Ghana, Cuba, Mexico, Iran, El Salvador, and Afghanistan solving problems in the United States, the United Kingdom, and (soon) Germany. Essentially, the Ghana ThinkTank is “Developing the First World,” implementing Third World solutions to First World problems, whether they seem brilliant or impractical. This has included hiring immigrant day laborers to attend social functions in Westport, CT., collecting funny, dirty memories from pensioners in Wales, renaming a dog ”love,” and small-scale reconciliation efforts between Serbs and Albanians in the disputed territory of Kosovo.

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Melody Roberts, Senior Director, Experience Design Innovation, McDonald's Corporation

	Melody Roberts

Melody Roberts originated the role of experience designer for McDonald’s innovation team. In this role, Roberts is responsible for turning consumer insight into viable new product, system, and service concepts. Engaged from trend analysis through international concept piloting, she collaborates closely with other designers as well as colleagues in business research, engineering, IT, operations, and marketing.

Prior to McDonald’s, Roberts spent seven years in design and innovation consulting. She worked at IDEO from 2004 to 2006, where she led joint IDEO/client teams in six-month to year-long design programs intended to foster a culture of customer-centered innovation within the client organization. From 1999 through 2003, she formalized and led Smart Design’s design research and new product strategy work, and also managed their largest client account.

A native of Colorado, Roberts earned a Master of Design degree in Human-Centered Product Design at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Yale University.

Roo Rogers, President, Redscout Ventures; co-author Collaborative Consumption

	Roo Rogers

Joining in January 2010, Roo immediately set into motion the opportunity for Redscout to apply their ability to grow businesses to the realm of new enterprises. Leveraging the company’s raw intelligence and creative capacity, Roo launched Redscout Ventures to concentrate on creating new projects, support existing entrepreneurial companies with their growth plans and advise private equity firm on cultivating their clients’ businesses. Turning the strategy inwards, he also treats Redscout as one of his ventures, constantly on watch for expansion opportunities including acquisitions and partnerships.

Working at the intersection of entrepreneurism and social responsibility for the majority of his career, Roo most recently served as the co-founding partner of OZOlab, the fund and incubator for environmental start-ups, and the former CEO of OZOcar, the eco-friendly car service. In 2004, Roo founded we:nited magazine – a youth politics magazine and website. In 2000, he launched Drive Thru Pictures and Drive Thru Films, the award-winning British and American film company devoted to communicating social issues to mass youth audiences and whose clients included the BBC, MTV and the Rolling Stones. After working for Medecins Du Monde/UNICEF in South Sudan, Roo co-founded UNITY TV, a start-up initially funded by the United Nations and the BBC.

Roo is the co-author of What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, delving into understanding the exploding economy of collaborative consumption. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Columbia College and his Master’s degree in Economic Development from University College London. He sits on the boards of Medecins Du Monde UK (Doctors of the World) and the Bronx Community Charter School.

Lorna Ross, Creative Lead and Design Manager, Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation

	Lorna Ross

Lorna Ross has 16 years of experience working in design and design research, with the past nine years focused on health and health care. She is currently manager of the design group at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. Previously, Ross ran the Design for Human Wellbeing Group at the MIT Media Lab Europe. She has led large-scale strategic design projects for the Department of Defense, Motorola Inc., Interval Research Corporation, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Ross held a faculty position at Rhode Island School of Design in the Industrial Design Department, and has been on the visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India. She has consulted to the UK Design Council and was a visiting research fellow at University of Reading, United Kingdom, Bionics Group. She is a graduate of The Royal College of Art, London.

Jean-Marie Shields, Global Brand Director, Starbucks Coffee Co.

	Jean-Marie Shields

Jean-Marie was born in Sweden and for the past 25 years has been a global citizen of both Europe and the USA. She has a degree in visual communication from The Art Institute of Seattle. She worked for six years as a creative director on consumer apparel products for movie launches for Disney and Warner Brothers, learning how to bring imagination and play into everyday life.

Jean-Marie spent 14 years at Nike in a variety of global design and product roles, starting as a Creative Director leading Nike’s Global Tennis Category. After six years, she made an unusual transition from a creative to a business-centered role. For eight years, she successfully managed existing performance product businesses as a Product Director. In her last four years at Nike, she was charged with identifying and establishing new consumer businesses for Nike Europe.

Jean-Marie is currently as Global Trend Director for Starbucks. One of her favorite sayings is “Starbucks is not in the coffee business serving people, but in the people business serving coffee.” She and her team are charged with ensuring that Starbucks is dynamic, relevant, and evolving. Accomplishments include leading the evolution of the Starbucks brand strategy and brand promise, building the Brand Days Event and Brand website, and getting Starbucks to be consumer centered through Starbucks Consumer Profiles and My Starbucks Idea.

She is inspired daily by people and believes now more than ever, putting Humanity at the center of everything you do is the key ingredient to all business.

Cameron Tonkinwise, Associate Dean for Sustainability, Parsons The New School for Design

	Cameron Tonkinwise

Cameron is the Associate Dean for Sustainability at Parsons The New School for Design. He was previously the Chair of Business Design and Sustainability in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons, and Co-Chair of the Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School. Cameron came to New York from Sydney, Australia where he was the executive officer Change Design, formerly known as the EcoDesign Foundation. Cameron’s research focuses on lowering societal materials intensity by decoupling use and ownership.

Nicola Twilley, author of the blog Edible Geography and co-director of Studio-X

	Nicola Twilley

Nicola Twilley is author of the blog Edible Geography and co-director of Studio-X, part of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation's global network of urban futures think tanks. She is also co-founder of the Foodprint Project and Future Plural, a former Food Editor at GOOD magazine, and a freelance writer and curator with work published in The Atlantic, Volume, Dwell, Business Insider, and Wired UK.

Helen Walters, Writer and Researcher, Doblin; former Editor of Innovation and Design at Bloomberg Businessweek

	Helen Walters

Helen Walters is a New York City-based business and design journalist with experience writing, editing and publishing content across multiple platforms, online and offline. The former editor of innovation and design at Bloomberg Businessweek, she is currently a writer, editor and researcher at Doblin, part of the Monitor Group. A contributing editor at Creative Review magazine in the United Kingdom, she writes about creativity and design for numerous international publications and is regularly invited to take part in discussions about the business of design at conferences around the world. She is the author of a number of design-related books. Follow her via twitter @HelenWalters and www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com Email her at hdwalters@gmail.com

Judy Wert, President & Executive Recruiter, Wert & Company

	Judy Wert

Judy co-founded Wert & Company in 1995, an executive search firm based in New York City specializing in Design, Strategy and Innovation. She works internationally with a wide range of CEOs and executive teams, and representing inspired leadership at the highest levels.

Judy has worked with young professionals and seasoned executives, coaching and guiding conversations in an ever-changing business landscape. Clients include IDEO, Continuum, Microsoft, Facebook, LVMH, West Elm, Carnegie Mellon, GE, Siegel+Gale, Starbucks, Sesame Street, SYPartners, and American Express. Judy hails from Minneapolis, and holds a BFA in graphic design from the University of Michigan School of Art.

Richard Whitehall, Vice President and Partner, Smart Design

	Richard Whitehall

Richard Whitehall is a VP and partner at Smart Design where he leads the Industrial Design practice. Inspired by people's everyday encounters with bad design but also the bigger problems facing society and business, he helps clients to connect the emotional and the practical to solve design challenges across a range of industries. Richard also leads Smart's initiative on sustainability through design and mentors thought leadership throughout the company.

His design work centers around the development of product eco-systems: holistic and harmonious customer experiences and service offerings that are founded upon a strong understanding of people's behavior. Since joining Smart Design in 2002, Richard has worked on many projects and with a variety of clients; highlights include a range of strategic projects across HP's divisions, over 100 products on the markets for OXO, inspirational design archetype projects for Panasonic, and numerous innovation programs in the consumer packaged goods industry.

Before Smart Design, Richard designed communication devices for NEC in Tokyo, worked extensively in the Healthcare Industry for Human Factors in New York, and helped create brand experiences with Isis in London. Richard studied Industrial Design and Engineering in his native England at the Royal College of Art, University of Bristol and Imperial College.

Smart Design has been turning insight and innovation into successful consumer experiences for 30 years. Our strategic approach integrates product and brand to ensure winning solutions. Smart Design’s consistent results are delivered by our multi-disciplinary, international staff working in teams across offices in New York, San Francisco, and Barcelona.

Duncan Trevor-Wilson, Global Design Manager, GE Healthcare Asia/Pacific

	Richard Whitehall

Duncan Trevor-Wilson is the Global Design Manager for Asia/Pacific at GE Healthcare based in Shanghai, China. He is responsible for driving Strategic design solutions to developing nations with healthcare challenges. Formerly, he was a design manager at Motorola consumer experience division Beijing and ResMed Australia. In addition, he has been awarded multiple design awards and patents for his innovative creations.

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