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Project Leader
During his 25 year career in design and branding, Stephen has worked primarily in the consultancy business in a diverse range of industry sectors and applications for 3D design and branding, and a number of award winning design projects including The British Design Award, a Designers and Art Directors Silver award, and a Business Week award in 2002. More recently Stephen was a Client Director at Fitch, part of the WPP group and one of the largest global design consultancies. Stephen’s Higher Education experience includes six years at the highly respected Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. Stephen has led many projects with external organisations including work with the BBC, Nokia, Mitsubishi, Kodak, Tate Modern and Marks & Spencer. He currently combines a major teaching input to the high profile design courses at Brunel, with leading the University’s role within Designplus.
stephen.green@brunel.ac.uk +44(0)1895 266 324
Project Manager
Karen is a brand strategist, specialising in the field of service design. She began her career in the retail sector, at WHSmith and Virgin, before spending 10 years at British Airways. Whilst at BA, Karen delivered significant results across a range of marketing challenges, including delivering a step-change in customer service through helping employees to ‘live the brand’, and redesigning the brand experience for high value customers. Karen brings her commercial knowledge into her role at Designplus, to assist businesses in gaining access to the right Design expertise within universities.
karen.young@brunel.ac.uk +44 (0)1895 265431
Project Coordinator
Jenny is a graphic designer with experience in the public, commercial and charity sectors. She specialises in design for print and coordinates Designplus with Karen.
jenny.moss@designplus.org.uk +44(0)1895 267 499
Maria Ana is an entrepreneurial and idea-driven systems thinker as well as a design strategist for business and social change through innovation. A trained designer, she has led businesses and processes of change through design thinking skills, improving or developing innovation, design and brand strategies with particular focus on value creation for the triple bottom line. Current projects include coordinating Brunel Designplus activities, a start-up innovation collaborative platform to design-out the need for packaging waste, and running innovation workshops for inspiring new business thinking.