2010 NED Speakers

CoCreate Keynote Presentation
Carol-Lynn Parente, executive producer, Sesame Street
 Rosemarie Truglio of education and research, Sesame Street

As Executive Producer of Sesame Street, Carol-Lynn Parente is responsible for overseeing production for Sesame Workshop’s landmark television program and serves as a creative guide to keep the program fresh and exciting. She is the first executive producer to grow up watching the show. Parente has been with the Workshop for 21 years, starting out as a Post Production Assistant and rising through the ranks. In her tenure she worked as a Production Assistant, Post Production Coordinator, Associate Producer commissioning live-action and animation films and Producer of the very popular portion of the show, Elmo’s World.

In addition to her work on the show, she oversees development of home video production, and has produced several home video titles, including Kid’s Favorite Songs 2 and Elmo’s World: Happy Holidays, which were Telly Award winners. She was also Executive Producer of the award-winning network special Elmo’s Christmas Countdown. In 2008, Parente won her ninth Emmy for Sesame Street in the Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Series category, and has helped the program achieve the Guinness World Record for Most Emmys by a Television Series with 122 wins.

Rosemarie Truglio is in her 12th year at Sesame Workshop and is responsible for the development of the interdisciplinary curriculum on which Sesame Street is based, and for the formative research conducted to inform production on how to enhance both the entertaining and educational components of the program. Dr. Truglio also develops and reviews the content across all the Sesame Street media platforms (e.g., publishing, digital media, home video, and products).

Before joining Sesame Workshop, she was an Assistant Professor of Communication and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Through her research, she has investigated the effects of television on the cognitive and social development of children and adolescents. She has written numerous articles appearing in child and developmental psychology journals; presented her work at national and international conferences; conducted media literacy workshops; and has appeared on both broadcast and cable network programs. Dr. Truglio is co-editor of G is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street (2001) published by Lawrence Earlbaum Associates. Dr. Truglio currently serves on several Advisory Boards including: Children’s Digital Media Center, Alliance for a Media Literate America, National Advisory for Child Health and Human Development Council, PBS Kids Next Generation Media Advisory Board, and the Mind, Body and Child Advisory Board.

Dr. Truglio received her PhD in Developmental and Child Psychology from the University of Kansas, and her BA in Psychology from Douglass College, Rutgers University.

Thinking Creatively Keynote Presentation
Jon Kamen, Jon Kamen, @radical.media
 James Spindler, @radical.media

Jon serves as the Chairman and CEO of @radical.media, a global company that creates innovative transmedia content. Under Jon’s leadership, the company has successfully navigated the worlds of branded, digital and entertainment media.

Jon has served as an executive producer or producer of Academy Award-winning, Grammy Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning and Spirit Award-winning feature films, documentaries, television series and specials. His company has been twice honored with the Palme d’Or, The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Communication Design and just about every accolade and trophy associated with the advertising and marketing industries.

Jon was also the founder of AICP Show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a show that has been dedicated to focusing on craft for nearly twenty years. In 1994, the Mayor of New York presented Jon with the Crystal Apple Award for his outstanding contributions to the city’s production industry. A Trustee of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), on the Board of Directors of VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, Virginia, and the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, Jon and his partner Frank Scherma have constantly been dedicated to furthering the evolution of the company as well as the industry at large.

@radical.media is also constantly involved in significant pro-social and corporate initiatives that engage their multi-disciplinary skills, contributing meaningfully to people’s lives, of which Jon and the entire company are most proud of.

James Spindler is the Executive Creative Director of @radical.media, a multi-disciplinary media company. He has specialized in brand identity since 1990, giving unique voice and vision to global brands across multiple platforms. After attending the Masters Program in Communication Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, James worked as Design Director for Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners, New York. Helping brands recognize the power of design, he then went on to work as Senior Art Director for Deutsch Advertising, On-Air Design Director for VH-1 Music Television and Consulting Design Director for MTV Asia, New York.

Telling the story of a brand through design, James’ strategic and narrative thinking brings a distinctive point of view to all of his brand work. With a diverse range of projects in print, film, television, and interactive, James’ work has been featured in The New York Times, I.D. Magazine, and Paper Magazine, and has been recognized by British Design and Art Direction, Cannes Film and Poster Festival, the New York Art Directors Club, the Clio and Andy Awards, and the Broadcast Design Awards. He’s also juried numerous design competitions, including the AIGA and the New York Art Directors Club.

In addition to working with clients including Adidas, Kate Spade, the Discovery Channel, and Barney’s New York, James has been a featured guest lecturer at the Yale Graduate School of Design, the School of Visual Arts and Parsons, New York, and VCU Brand Center, Richmond, Virginia. Current projects include multimedia initiatives for NASA, the ONE campaign and renowned artist, Maya Lin.

Jim Best is a founding partner of Pensa, a strategic design consultancy. Jim offers unique insights with his knowledge of design and business. He started his career designing medical equipment for companies such as Becton Dickinson, Biomedic Data Systems and Bayer Diagnostics. Jim later worked at a variety of design consultancies, including NY-based Smart Design, as a senior industrial designer, leading all aspects of the design process. He has designed products for a wide range of categories including childcare, consumer packaged goods, furniture, housewares, medical devices, home healthcare and consumer electronics. Jim's work has been recognized with awards such as BusinessWeek/IDEA Gold, MD&M Medical Design Excellence award, and the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award. Jim has a BFA in Industrial Design from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA in Marketing from Fordham University.

As creative people we often blindly say to our equally creative friends, "we should work together sometime," but that is easier said then done. Collaboration is when two people work together in hopes of producing something better then each individual could create on his or her own. Ronald will take us through his wealth of collaborative works with many other designers, illustrators and art directors explaining the art of collaboration and giving some advice on getting the best results. Work will include his many award winning poster collaborations, working with art directors as an illustrator and collaborating with creatives at CMYK Magazine, showing how they go about creating the articles for the publication.

Ronald received a Bachelors of Fine Art and Masters of Fine Art in Graphic and Interactive Design from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. He started illustrating by creating the images for his own poster designs and since then has worked with many clients including the New York Times Op-Ed Page, the London Times, the LA Times, The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, Fortune (Magazine), Men’s Health, BusinessWeek,UTNE Reader, Target, Nordstrom, AIGA Philadelphia and AIGA National. He is currently working as the Art Director of CMYK magazine and is the principal designer and illustrator at Calagraphic Design, his internationally recognized design and illustration studio that he started in 2004. In addition he is the co-founder of Somewhat Awesome Design and Shy Girl Design.

He often collaborates with other illustrators and designers and his collaborative works have been recognized by numerous organizations and publications including AIGA, American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Print magazine, How Magazine, Communication Arts, Step Inside Design Magazine, Creative Quarterly, Logo Lounge and The Art Directors Club of New York.

Ralph Caplan writes about design, consults with both corporations and design offices, and lectures widely about design and related subjects. He is the author of By Design; Cracking The Whip; The Design of Herman Miller; and other books about the design process. Caplan is the former editor of I.D. magazine, and has been a columnist for both I.D. and Print. His column Noah’s Archive appears regularly in VOICE, the online magazine of the AIGA. He was writer in residence at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deere Isle, Maine, and teaches in the graduate Design Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts.

Kimi works with product development teams on design for sustainability, sustainability strategies and integrating environmental sustainability into the design process. Previously, Kimi founded Kalepa Tech, a design for sustainability consultancy focusing on developing technology that has a positive impact on the world. She has experience in technology development for companies including Teledyne, Boeing, Schlumberger, MKS Instruments, Philips, Hamilton Beach, Dell, Cooper Perkins, and other consumer and industrial product companies. Kimi speaks, volunteers and travels with teams working on poverty alleviation through MIT IDEAS Competition, MIT D-Lab, MIT 100K Competition, TiE Boston and Sloan's Product Development Course. She is a periodic guest lecturer at MIT, MIT Sloan and Brandeis and has mentored award-winning student teams. She holds a Master's in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and is working towards a Master's in Environmental Management from Harvard.

Darren Chilton is a senior industrial designer and product specialist at solidThinking, Inc. In this capacity, Chilton provides support and training for designers to enable them to fully utilize solidThinking’s extensive capabilities. He specializes in industrial design processes, product development and technology impacting the process of industrial design. Chilton was previously the studio lead for transportation design for parent company Altair Engineering. He earned his degree in industrial design – transportation from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

Stephan Clambaneva joined IBM in 2001 as a business process design consultant for the Global Business Services PLM team. He is currently the Global PLM Industrial Products Industry Leader. He is also the Environmental Product Lifecycle Management Champion for the PLM organization. He was recently elected chapter Chair for the New York City Chapter of Industrial Design Society of America. His experience spans the entire product lifecycle from ideation and industrial design through engineering, manufacturing execution to operations and end of life strategies. He has published and presented papers on the subject of PLM, ID, Green Design and Environmental Management Systems. He received his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and his Masters in Manufacturing Management from Pennsylvania State University. He is fluent in English, French and Greek. Mr. Clambaneva has significant international experience and lives and works in New York.

Stuart Constantine is a managing partner at Core77, a media design and publishing company based in New York City. After graduating from the University of Connecticut with a BA in History, he worked as a packaging designer for Lotus Software, and then earned a Masters Degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. He founded Core77 with a fellow classmate in 1995. He's worked as a product manager and technology director with Gartner, and IT consulting company, and has been working at Core77 full time since 2000. He currently resides in Connecticut with his wife, three children and a collection of guitars.

Danielle Currier is an Associate Professor of Design in the department of Visual Communications in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Endicott College. She holds an M.F.A from Parsons The New School for Design. Danielle has worked as an educator, designer and artist in both the Boston area and New York City. She has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships and exhibited her digital art nationally. Danielle is co-author of the book, No Plastic Sleeves: The Complete Portfolio Guide for Photographers and Designers.

Jill Fehrenbacher is the founder and publisher of Inhabitat.com – the web’s biggest and most influential site dedicated to sustainable design. She is also a freelance designer and green design consultant based in New York City. Jill created Inhabitat in 2005 as a way to catalog her search for new ways to improve the world through forward-thinking, high-tech, and environmentally conscious design. Educated at Brown University, where she received a BA in Art Semiotics, and Central St. Martins, where she received an MA in Design Studies, she currently resides in New York City, which suits her obsession with rooftop gardens and vegan junk food restaurants.

Born and raised in New York City to parents who swear they were “artists of the times” rather than hippies, Dan was brought up at protest rallies and museum exhibitions. As an Industrial Designer he has worked on Humanitarian and Sustainable Design projects in conjunction with the Pratt Institute Design Incubator, the Institute of Paper Science Technology and the Department of Energy. Currently he is the acting New York City Chapter Head for Project H Design - a charitable organization that supports, creates, delivers, and scales life-improving humanitarian product design solutions all across the world. Dan’s work has been featured in I.D. and Metropolis Magazines, and most recently was accepted into the fourth National Design Triennial “Why Design Now?” at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. Dan currently resides in Brooklyn, where he works as an Industrial Designer at Lifetime Brands while still pursuing freelance design projects. When he’s not too busy volunteering, he attempts to spend what little free time he has traveling the globe.

Kenneth A. Gruskin founded the Gruskin Group and has over 20 years of design and architecture experience with a wide range of clients in the wireless telecommunications, specialty retail, restaurant, entertainment, insurance, financial, pharmaceutical, museum, real estate, residential and non-profit industries. His work and articles have been published in numerous publications, both national and international. He has been a guest on CNN, Bloomberg TV and Radio, and NJ Nightly News. He has won many awards for his architectural work, graphic design and photography.

Ken is a licensed architect in 47 states, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico. Licensed Professional Planner, New Jersey Interior Designer, NCARB Certified, Member of AIA and Institute of Store Planners, and associate member of NFPA. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and his Master in Architecture from Harvard University.

Enrique Heredia is a no-nonsense creative director. Working across channels and countries, Enrique started his own ad agency during college while studying computer engineering and communication sciences in his native Mexico. In 1991 he moved to New York to study performing arts, and has also studied film at NYU as part of his continuing education.

Professionally, Enrique has created many integrated campaigns for industries as varied as automobiles, telecommunications and healthcare, with product launches in 20 countries. His portfolio includes work in a wide variety of channels, from print to web sites, to video and iPhone apps. Awards? Yes, in many shapes and colors; he particularly likes the Pencil on his desk from the One Club in New York. Enrique’s latest agency collaborations include ICC under the Lowe Group, DAf, a cutting edge design studio and production company based in Chile, CCG, an interactive think-tank in Chelsea, and currently CAHG NY, an Omnicom Group Company. As far as sports go, Enrique prefers the extreme – kiteboarding is his current passion.

Enrique is part of the adjunct faculty at Kean University and teaches a class he specifically designed to push the boundaries of human expression. Enrique’s Nonconformist Design class is offered during the fall semester...enroll – if you dare.

Jessica Hische is a typographer and illustrator working in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Tyler School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design, she worked for Headcase Design in Philadelphia before taking a position as Senior Designer at Louise Fili Ltd. While working for Louise, she continued developing her freelance career, working for clients such as Tiffany & Co., Chronicle Books, and The New York Times. In September of 2009, after two and a half years of little sleep and a lot of hand-lettering, she left Louise Fili to pursue her freelance career further. Jessica has been featured in most major design and illustration publications including Communication Arts, Print Magazine, How Magazine, The Graphis Design Annual, American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators. She was featured as one of Step Magazine’s 25 Emerging Artists, Communication Arts “Fresh,” Print Magazine’s New Visual Artists 2009 (commonly referred to as Print’s 20 under 30), and The Art Directors Club Young Guns.

Ben Hopson is a designer, artist and educator working in Brooklyn, NY. After studying sculpture at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, he went on to receive his Master's degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute in 2005. Hopson is the creator of the discipline of Kinetic Design, which involves the aesthetic design of physical movement. Incorporating elements of industrial design, kinetic sculpture, engineering, interaction design and puppetry, the field allows designers to animate products and spaces in new ways. Hopson's recent work includes a line of moving jewelry and a kinetic sculpture for a music video by the band Modest Mouse. Along with his professional design work, Hopson teaches transportation design and 3D design at Pratt Institute.

As co-founder and creative director, Erik brings over a decade of industry experience to HUSH. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art of Design’s computer animation and film departments, Erik has worked at several top studios and agencies including The GT Group, TeamHeavy, Charlex and JWT. Later, Erik decided to broaden his skills and became a freelance designer, animator and director for many prominent clients such as Nike, Acura, Sprint, McDonalds and Miller. Before HUSH, he played prominent roles in major projects for studios such as Brand New School, Digital Kitchen, The Ebeling Group, Tronic and Transistor. Erik always stays on the cutting edge of industry techniques and technology enabling HUSH clients to remain focused on high level communication goals.

After starting mophie at the tender age of 18 and taking home a “Best of Show” at MacWorld in 2006, Ben started brainstorming ways to engage his customers in the product design and development process. In August of 2007, Ben sold mophie to mStation so he could focus on expanding the collaborative process to areas outside of iPod accessories. After spending two years building a team and extensively researching, building, and testing technology platforms, Ben was finally ready to open the floodgates and get quirky going. Ben is happy to lead the quirky team through the trials and tribulations of social product development, in an effort to assure that all ideas and inventors have the ability to reach their full potential.

Sunmee Kim is a Senior Lead Researcher with the Innovation & Design group, part of Chief Technology Office at Motorola’s Enterprise Mobility Solutions. After joining Motorola in July 2006, her focus at Motorola has been user research, customer business processes and product portfolio strategies. Sunmee has been working closely with enterprise and government customers, and her insights from customer’s business operation were able to influence internal Motorola development and marketing teams. Her research interests are knowledge management, cultural differences, customer business modeling, holistic system design approaches and portfolio strategies. Sunmee was born in Seoul, Korea but raised in different countries such as New Zealand and Canada. She has a background in Industrial Design and is currently completing her Master’s in Technology Management from Columbia University. Sunmee truly enjoys working with students and has given lecture sessions at design schools such as Carleton, School of Visual Arts, Seoul National University and KAIST. For the past 2 years, she was able to write a few papers on design research themes and presented at various conferences including IDSA, Design Management Institute Annual Education Design Thinking 2008 and International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) 2009.

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Robin Landa is included among the teachers that the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching calls the “great teachers of our time.” Most recently, Landa was a finalist in the Wall Street Journal’s Creative Leaders competition.

Professor Landa has won many awards for design, writing, teaching,, and creative leadership, including: National Society of Arts and Letters, The National League of Pen Women, New Jersey Authors Award, Creativity, Graphic Design USA, Art Directors Club of New Jersey, The Presidential Excellence Award in Scholarship from Kean University, and the Rowan University Award for Contribution to Design Education.

Robin has lectured across the country at the HOW International Design Conferences, Graphic Artists Guild conference, College Art Association, Thinking Creatively conference, Art Directors Club of New Jersey, and the One Club Education Summit. She has been interviewed on radio, television, in print, and the World Wide Web on the subjects of design, creativity and art. In addition, working with Mike Sickinger at Lava Dome Creative in New Jersey, Robin is a brand strategist, designer, copywriter and storyteller, and she is the creative director of her own firm, robinlanda.com. Robin has worked closely with marketing executives and their companies and organizations to develop brand strategy, enhance corporate creativity through seminars, and develop brand stories. With the keen ability to connect the seeming unconnected, Robin uses her research and writing to support her professional practice.

Prior to starting Gabardine, Peter was Global Head of Creative Services for Reuters (later Thomson Reuters), the world’s leading news and financial information provider. Peter oversaw a major refresh of the corporate ID (twice), implemented brand standards and upped the creative/concept quotient of the company’s marketing materials across all media channels. Before that Peter was Vice-President, Creative Director at Modem Media, a pioneering interactive agency where he led the creative strategy and implementation of online marketing for IBM Global Services, Delta Air Lines and its low-fare subsidiary, Song. In the offline world, Peter worked for traditional agencies, including divisions of the InterPublic Group, Grey Advertising and Bates Worldwide, where he developed advertising, direct response and promotional marketing pieces for both business and consumer audiences.

Peter holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, lives in Stamford, CT, with his wife and three children (and three pugs!), and tries daily to keep his penchant for mid-century modern furnishings at bay.

Since 1996 Tim has proudly served the Internet as both a Creative Director and Digital Producer. As a pioneer in delivering compelling online narratives, Tim has worked to blur the lines between the worlds of interactive, broadcast and film. Over the past decade Tim has spearheaded projects at some of the industry leading digital studios and adverting agencies including Digitas, Big Spaceship, Night Agency, Firstborn Multimedia and POKE NY.

Tim’s personal and professional work has been featured in publications worldwide including: AdBusters (Canada), Shift Magazine (Japan), TOCA-ME, and E-Project Volume 2 – a Book of the Most Creative Web Sites Around the World, which named Tim as one of the most inspirational people on the Web in 2004. Nolan has also had the privilege of speaking at such events as SXSW, BD4D, Toca-Me (Germany), and Creative Review’s Click09 Conference. He is an award-winning interactive Director/Producer who’s received recognition in a variety of competitions including: Cannes Cyber Lion (Bronze), AdBusters – Best Mini-Documentary, Webby Award (MSoft Zune), Silver Pencil (D&AD). He has worked with industry leading studios, brands, and agencies on their digital initiatives since digital was digital. Some notable clients include Microsoft, Porsche, HP, XM Radio, Malibu-Rum, General Electric, Herman Miller and Reebok among others.

In her role as Vice-President at Pantone, Laurie Pressman is responsible for creating the strategic vision and developing the marketing platform for Pantone’s fashion, home and interiors division on an international basis. With over 20 years experience in product development and merchandising for the fashion and home furnishings markets, Laurie recognizes that color is an intrinsic part of the visual experience and plays a significant role in consumer purchasing decisions. Laurie is involved in the development of Pantone’s color forecasting products, sits on the board of the Home Products division at the Fashion Institute Technology and is a vice-chairman of the color standards committee for the Color Marketing Group.

Anna Rabinowicz was born in London, England in 1971, and was raised mainly in the United States. After receiving a BA in literature from Stanford University, she studied Industrial Design in Jerusalem, Israel at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She subsequently received dual degrees from the Product Design Program of Stanford University: a Master of Fine Arts degree in Design and a Master of Science degree in Engineering.

She has created designs as well as global product and category strategies for world-renowned design consultancies, including IDEO Product Development, Design Continuum and Ecco Design. In her years as a product design consultant in California and New York, she designed products including webcams for Logitech, a prosthetic knee for the Hospital for Special Surgery, concepts for General Motors, and medical devices for cardiac surgery.

Anna’s designs have been featured in over 20 top design and lifestyle publications, including Architectural Digest, The New York Times Home Section, New York Magazine, O Magazine, Elle Décor, Bon Appetit, Harper’s Bazaar, Lucky Magazine and House Beautiful.

A year after arriving from Lebanon, Fadi Riscala enrolled at Kean University Design School and received a degree in Interior Design in 1988. Having honed his natural sense for design, he joined Q5, a firm rated among the top 100 Hospitality Firm Giants during the 80’s. It was at Q5 that Riscala developed a strong foundation for a future in restaurant design. Working as a project manager, he developed full restaurant concepts, from kitchen layout to the front of the house. Riscala also became involved in graphic design, which proved to be a useful tool in concept and brand development. Fadi’s strong visual sense and passion for the industry pushed him to pursue a more prominent position in the field.

When approached in 1996 to independently design Pistachio’s, a restaurant in Allentown, PA, Riscala experienced a very successful outcome that caused him to realize the possibilities of introducing Riscala Design as a design firm, which has now become Riscala Agnese Design Group. The firm has a wide variety of design interests, which are pursued as an integral part of their restaurant design practice, including materials, furniture and light fixture design. Also included in their scope of work is graphic design, including logo and signage design. Riscala Agnese has recently extended its brand, offering a different level of service through “moskito,” a branch of the company geared for smaller venues. Riscala Agnese is in constant touch with the restaurant community, and remain aware of current concerns and innovations in the industry. The firm has been inducted into the NJRA Hall of Fame, and has been published in several prominent publications such as Hospitality Design Magazine, Architects Newspaper and New York Spaces.

Phil Russo is the Global Creative Director of Footwear for Converse. He is responsible for establishing the seasonal and long-term creative direction across multiple product franchises including the Chuck Taylor All Star, Jack Purcell, Converse One Star and Converse Star Chevron. Phil leads creative teams in the Converse world headquarters in North Andover Ma., in Costa Mesa California, and in New York City, New York. Converse footwear and apparel products are sold in 160 countries and include the top-selling shoe of all time, the iconic Chuck Taylor. Converse is a wholly owned subsidiary of NIKE, Inc.

Prior to joining Converse, Phil served as the Global Creative Director for footwear at Fila where he led the design direction across multiple product disciplines and collaborated with teams in brand, communications, P.R., marketing, sales, and retail in order to drive cohesive brand statements to market. Before Fila, Phil spent 6 years at Puma International where his last position was Global Head of Footwear Design. Phil was instrumental in establishing and driving the creative content and operational objectives for the global footwear design group.

Phil holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Lemoyne College and a Masters of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute.

Currently at The Gate Worldwide, Bill Schwab has worked as Art Director/Creative Director at Fallon McElligott, BBDO, Ammirati&Puris and Chiat Day. His work has been recognized repeatedly with awards in Communication Arts, the One Show, the Effies, Graphis and Cannes. Most recently, he coauthored a best selling business book Death to All Sacred Cows, published by Disney/Hyperion. In addition to writing the book, his strategic insight and creative abilities helped land State Street Global Advisors, iRobot, Unum and RH Donnelly, and transformed the GateWorldwide into a multi-dimensional communications company.

While at BBDO, Bill created campaigns for every division of General Electric, including Medical Systems, Aircraft Engines, Insurance and Financial Planning as well as Campbell Soup, Chrysler, Pizza Hut, KFC and Charles Schwab. Prior to BBDO, Bill worked at Fallon McElligott where he was part of the team that brought United Airlines, McDonalds, Holiday Inn, and Fortune Magazine to the agency. He helped create and staff the Fallon McElligott New York office while producing award winning work for clients like Conseco Insurance. The work he produced for the BMW Z3 Roadster was a case study for successful new product launches by the Harvard University School of Business.

Before Fallon, Bill was Senior Vice President Creative Director at Ammirati&Puris, supervising the Nikon, RCA, Stanley Tools and Aetna accounts. His work for Nikon was an MPA Kelly Finalist, the Nipper and Chipper work for RCA was cited as “one of the best loved advertising campaigns” by a USA Today poll. At Chiat Day, he produced the Dan and Dave campaign for Reebok as well as significant work for the Reebok women’s fitness division. His career before coming to New York included working with Bill Westbrook at Earle Palmer Brown. His TV work for SkyTel was called one of the “4 bright spots of the advertising year” by AdAge Magazine.

Susan S. Szenasy is Editor in Chief of METROPOLIS, the award-winning New York City-based magazine of architecture and design. Since 1986 she has lead the magazine through decades of landmark design journalism, achieving domestic and international recognition. She is internationally recognized as an authority on sustainability and design.

Susan sits on the boards of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation, Fashion Institute of Technology’s Interior Design department, the Center for Architecture Advisory Board, and the Landscape Architecture Foundation. She has been honored with two IIDA Presidential Commendations, is an honorary member of the ASLA, and the 2008 recipient of the ASID Patron’s Prize and Presidential Commendation as well as the SARA/NY medallion of honor. She has received a citation and an honorary membership from NYC AIA. Along with METROPOLIS Publisher Horace Havemeyer III, Susan was a 2007 recipient of the Civitas August Heckscher Award for Community Service and Excellence. Susan holds an MA in Modern European History from Rutgers University, and honorary doctorates from Kendall College of Art and Design, the Art Center College of Design, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She lives in New York’s East Village in a small loft designed by Harry Allen, where she moved after 9/11 to reduce her ecological footprint.

Rob Tannen, PhD, is Director of User Research and Interaction Design at Bresslergroup. He earned a PhD in Human Factors from the University of Cincinnati and is a Certified Professional Ergonomist. Rob specializes in optimizing the fit between people and technology, with over 15 years experience in human-centered research and design. Rob is vice-chair of the Human Interaction Section of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). He has judged several major design awards including the Human Factors Society Product Design Group, IDSA International Design Excellence Awards, and I.D. Magazine's Annual Design Review. He was a lead on the design team that won the 2008 I.D. Magazine Design of Distinction in user interface for the IPC emergency call center/dispatch system.

Rob is a design blogger at fastcompany.com and a contributing commentator for the recently published book, Deconstructing Product Design. He is founder and editor of DesigningforHumans.com, a reference blog for user-research methods. Rob has recently published articles in 360 Magazine, Ergonomics in Design, Interactions, Appliance Design, and Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and guest lecturer in university programs.

Tiffany Threadgould is a design junkie who gives scrap materials a second life. She's the head of design at TerraCycle (www.TerraCycle.net), a company that collects and creates products from waste. She also keeps up her own green biz, RePlayGround (RePlayGround.com), where you can find ReMake It recycling kits and oodles of DIY projects. Tiffany thinks that garbage has feelings too and can sometimes be found talking to her pile of junk at her design studio in Brooklyn, NY.

Linda Tischler is a senior writer at Fast Company, where she writes about the intersection of business and design. For the past several years, she has been responsible for the magazine’s October “Masters of Design” issue, which celebrates the people in the forefront of design thinking. She also oversees design coverage and blogs on Fastcompany.com, where she launched the site’s team of expert design bloggers.

Prior to joining Fast Company, Tischler was an editor at Boston Magazine, where she initiated the New England Design Awards, and launched the magazine’s special “Boston Home” section. She has also written on art and design for Metropolitan Home, Better Homes and Gardens, and Maybourne Style, and held editing and writing jobs at the Boston Herald and Microsoft’s sidewalk.com.

In 2006, Tischler won the Society of Professional Journalists' top award for feature writing, and was a finalist for the 2007 “Mirror Awards” for best single story. Linda holds a bachelor's degree, and two masters' degrees from Boston University. She is married to a college professor, and has two children.

As Director of Design at Bresslergroup, Mathieu leads a team of highly talented and accomplished multidisciplinary designers working across a wide variety of projects and industries. He is passionate about design and user research. Mathieu is a firm believer that designers have the ability and responsibility to influence and direct change - and that their unique set of problem-solving skills positions them to be better change agents than most. Mathieu's recent Bresslergroup projects include the MDEA award-winning Bactec FX for BD, several products for Black & Decker and Greener Gadget concept award winner, Power Hog. Mathieu graduated from the Superior School of Industrial Design of Paris (ESDI). A native of Paris, Mathieu is fluent in French and English and manages client relationships, across states, countries and continents. Mathieu has won numerous awards including IDEAs, MDEA and I.D. magazine among others.

Mathieu has been invited to present to audiences at major industry events including IDSA, National Hardware Show and the International Home and Housewares Show. He has also lectured at the University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University. He recently co-authored an article for Ergonomics in Design and has been quoted in numerous publications including Design Perspectives, Product Design & Development, and Toronto Globe and Mail, among others.

Katherine is one of the founding members of the Jump New York office. She draws on her background in mathematics, fine arts and industrial design to inform her hybrid approach to design and strategy. Her foundational experience as a classroom teacher has given her a keen sense of people’s needs, as she often had to redesign the everyday learning experience to engage her students in their own educational growth and development. At GE Power Systems, Katherine managed relations between overseas and local offices, which give her insight and empathy for the business, work, and social dynamics of the corporate world. Her fluency in Arabic, French and English often puts her in the role of cultural interpreter whether translating the lessons at a Parisian culinary school to English-speaking students or serving as a Paralympic Envoy for Bahrain. She holds BAs in mathematics and fine art from the University of the South and in industrial design from the California College of the Arts. For someone so steeped in world cultures, Katherine continually amazes her fellow Jumpsters with her limited knowledge of what she’s told is called “rock music.”

Angela Yeh, president of Yeh IDeology brings over 15 years of expertise specializing in design & strategy recruitment. Yeh IDeology works with the leading corporations, manufacturers and design firms around the globe bringing them the best matched talent in the industry. With a combined background in psychology and industrial design, Angela has a genuine passion for people and she has an innate insight into the dynamics between people and organizations and as a result cultivates some of the most prolific matches. A well-known figure in the design community, Angela has been an active member of IDSA, lectures at conferences and universities around the world. Previous to her work in design, Angela received her BA in psychology from the University of Bridgeport, CT, and worked in the field of behavioral psychology.

Mat recently returned to Ogilvy to help evolve the direct and CRM creative model for the digital world. He is invigorated by the challenge to reinterpret David Ogilvy’s “secret weapon” for the modern marketing environment while working with its fully integrated 360 brand teams. Mat first joined in 1999 as Associate Creative Director on Ameritrade and WebMD. He rose through the ranks to become Senior Partner, Group Creative Director, leading all direct marketing, demand generation and relationship marketing for Cisco Systems and CRM for Enfamil, as well as digital duties for WebMD and The Office of National Drug Control Policy. Mat left in 2005 to join R/GA as executive creative director to lead the Subaru and Johnson & Johnson business, launching baby.com and guiding Acuvue, Clean & Clear, Splenda, Johnson’s baby and other brands. He then moved to Agency.com where he was Executive Creative Director of its New York office for two years. His creative work helped grow the agency’s business with such clients as British Airways, CIT and Mars, including breakthrough brand experiences for Skittles.

Mat has won a clutch of major industry awards including ADDYs, Effies, New York Festivals, ad:tech, Caples, LIAAs, WebAward and a WPP Atticus for Original Thinking in Internet Communications. He has helped pioneer brands in podcasting, e-commerce, and creative use of media. He speaks regularly on industry panels and writes for industry publications such as Advertising Age as well as local press such as The New York Press, Our Town and The West Side Spirit.

Mat graduated from Cornell University and started as a copywriter at Foote, Cone & Belding on AT&T, Nabisco, Fleischmann’s, Cream of Wheat and Rayovac batteries.