Our award-winning creatives, brand builders, design experts, strategists, innovators, and data scientists push boundaries, redefine categories, and grow organizations.
With backgrounds from some of the most renowned design firms and Fortunes 500 companies such as IDEO, Apple, and Pentagram — our nimble, elite team brings the top creative minds to innovate on your most complex challenges, designing impactful products and services that people love.
Expert Teaming
Caroline Flagiello
Founder, Creative Director, and Designer Caroline Flagiello is an innovation expert with 20 years of experience leading teams and designing for every kind of business, from nascent startups to high profile Fortune 500 companies, in industries ranging from consumer electronics to fashion to food and beverage. She is an expert in human centered design and design thinking having worked at IDEO for 12 years. Caroline brings her innovative and award-winning design experience in brand strategy, industrial design, culture change, and go to market strategies to craft visions and overall business opportunities, then galvanizes teams across disciplines to shepherd the work through all phases of execution.
Anthony Piazza
Creative Director and Designer Anthony Piazza is a creative director on programs ranging from food to footwear. He was Global Footwear Creative Director at Brooks Sports, Inc. for 3 years. Prior to Brooks, Anthony was a design lead in the Food & Beverage practice at IDEO, helping clients tackle tough challenges and uncover new opportunities through the human-centered design process.
Judy Lee Haworth
Head of User Research, Strategist, and Designer Judy Lee Haworth is an innovation expert bringing compelling new offerings into the world, from design strategy and conceptual development through implementation. She builds capacity in teams to learn new behaviors and mindsets make shifting processes and cultures. She unlocks the power of the user’s voice and guides clients in understanding how to integrate that voice in their products, services, and plans. Moving from strategy to "doing" earlier to get tangible more quickly, means that assumptions are tested up-front, allowing teams to be well-guided and assured in the direction they are moving.
Robert Gusentine
Military Strategist Robert Gusentine (Gus) is a combat-experienced innovation consultant who has served in over 30 countries leading collaborative, high-performance teams in dynamic and challenging circumstances. His decades of experience as a special operations commander coupled with his design thinking expertise allows him to create breakthrough innovation to solve the military’s toughest challenges. Gus teaches systems thinking and strategic design to foreign government officials and is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow with the Council of Independent Colleges. In his spare time, he paints.
Randy Decker
Senior Industrial Designer Randy Decker has a background in industrial design and is a 3D CAD specialist. As an integral team mate, he brings concepts to life through Class A surfacing and photo realistic rendering. He enables a successful creative design process and storytelling of brands from products to packaging to furniture and environments. He has worked with top agencies such as IDEO and with clients such as Restoration Hardware, Steelcase, Microsoft, and Pepsi.
Chris Cowart
Business Strategist Chris Cowart is a designer and innovator of and for products and businesses. He has worked across brands, innovation consultancies and venture communities over the past 20 years, with a focus on consumer, health and wellness experiences. His point of view has been shaped by his time at IDEO as associate partner, through the lens of inspirational people, the innovation process and client challenges. Chris is on the core faculty for Singularity University and is a thought leader and futurist on the topic of sports and athletics
Gina Romero
Materials and Manufacturing Specialist Gina Romero is a is a strategic thinker and manufacturing creative who integrates business, manufacturing, and design thinking towards realizing impactful products and services. For the past 20 years she's worked with teams across industries from Fortune 500 companies to startups utilizing her skills from conception to execution. She is highly adept at creating, developing and implementing successful project design and building business and manufacturing strategies at leading organizations such as IDEO and Apple.
Dickon Isaacs
Senior Design Director Dickon Isaacs is a design leader who freely connects strategy > brand > execution. He loves designing beautiful products & experiences, with great people, helping teams solve big hairy design challenges, redefining categories or creating new ones. He brings 20+ years of global corporate and consultancy design group experience as a proven leader at Intuit (VP Design), Motorola/Google (Global Design Director) and IDEO.
Martin Schnitzer
Strategist and Designer Martin Schnitzer is an industrial designer with over a dozen years of working with renowned companies and organizations as FuseProject, IDEO, and IDEO.org. His belief in an active and healthy lifestyle influences his focus on product categories that directly impact people’s well-being, such as outdoor gear, nutrition and medical products. Martin teaches design thinking and industrial design in the US and Europe.
