User Profile

Creative director with a range of design, marketing, project management, technical product development and construction project experience. Conceived and launched new-to-the-world architectural products and market categories that have earned in excess of $350m. Conceived, built and led a corporate venture at a Fortune 500 company. 20+ years’ experience driving challenging creative projects spanning global matrix organizations, design consultancies and tech startups. Direct construction project experience ranging across themed entertainment, museum, retail, hospitality, healthcare, academic and commercial clients. Accomplished speaker and writer forecasting future trends in immersive digital experiences and technologies. Creative, contributive and collaborative: Manages the dynamic balance of creative optimism with programmatic pessimism to bring novel ideas to life.

Since I was a kid, I wanted to be an Imagineer. When I was 10, I even drafted an attraction concept and mailed it to Tony Baxter, who graciously replied with the typical "we can't accept ideas" but it was on WDI letterhead and signed by Tony. It was something I treasured for years. So I wound up getting two degrees in architecture, alongside which I took a keen interest in theatrical design, particularly lighting design, so my early career focused on architectural lighting. I moved to product development in LED lighting, then to special projects and corporate venturing at Philips. Lately I've been helping startups launch challenging new products and projects, including a startup that developed LBE/FEC franchises for National Geographic and Dreamworks; a retail media network; and now a Hollywood-based company with deep roots in virtual production technologies.
But I still want to be an Imagineer...someday!

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Color Kinetics, Philips, etc.

Amsterdam

Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Virginia School of Architecture