A Designplus symposium: 15 September 2010
Brunel University
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Anne Boddington
Anne Boddington is Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton, and an elected member of the executive for the Council for Higher Education in Art & Design (CHEAD). She has gained extensive experience of academic and research leadership and management in Higher Education particularly with reference to the Creative and Cultural Industries.
David Worthington
David is Chairman of the Lloyd Northover Group at AIM listed Media Square plc, prior to which he was Managing Director of Conran Design Group for ten years.
A graphic designer and passionate believer in the commercial and social benefits of design, he is a member of D&AD and a fellow of the CSD and RSA. David’s design career has centred on the retail, banking and leisure sectors, for companies such as Diesel, Nationwide, First Choice and P&G. Alongside his work at Media Square David is also chairman of Designersblock and his consultancy clients include IWM Duxford and the Parliamentary advisory group, Policy Connect.
David is a trustee of the London Transport Museum, on both the main and trading boards. Prior to this he was consultant curator responsible for the content and art direction of the new Design Gallery in the recently refurbished museum. He is Chair of CCSkills, the Sector Skills Council for creative and cultural industries and Chair of the Design Alliance, an industry wide partnership set up to develop the skills of the design industry.
Gus Desbarats
Gus is an RCA trained car designer with degrees in MechE and Systems. His core focus is on bringing better user experiences and professional brand marketing into high-tech industries. With over 26 years experience as a design consultant, spanning automotive, computing and communications, Gus has directed multi-project relationships credited with delivering strategic change to BT, HP, Toshiba and Thomson Grass Valley among others. Gus is constantly focused on the evolution of innovation best practice. A prolific speaker, he has published widely on associated topics ranging from design and branding and new designer roles in a 3D world through to global supply chains and lean innovation.
David Riley
David is the co-founder of the Mandeville Recruitment Group. From a modest start, the company experienced profitable year-on-year growth for over a decade until its eventual sale to a major international public company. David remained as MD of the company for four and a half years post sale. Consequently, David’s experience combines successfully operating as both an entrepreneurial owner-manager and as the MD of an operating company within a large international group.
As an entrepreneurial ‘evangelist’ and practioner, David had given his time and passion to inspiring young people through presentations, training and workshops; working with universities, not-for-profit organisations and mentoring programmes.
David has recently been appointed as Brunel University’s first Entrepreneur in Residence.
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