Ty is an industrial design entrepreneur developing new products and commercializing innovative technologies for early-stage startups and intrapreneurial corporate teams. He has co-founded and partnered with startups as CDO –chief design officer.
Ty spent the previous decade leading industrial design and global product development for Paoli, Inc. and Kimball International’s Advanced Products Group. He is active in Kentucky’s entrepreneurial eco-system having served as a Coach for University of Louisville’s NUCLEUS’ LAUNCHit Program and co-taught the inaugural cross-disciplinary Industrial design co-creation course at UofL.
He chaired the Vogt Invention & Innovation Awards and served on Venture Connectors Board. Ty has been awarded (11+) eleven U.S. Patents and earned his Bachelor of Science in ID (industrial design) from California State University Long Beach.
