Sean Donahue is internationally recognised for his socially-driven design and design research. He is the Co-founder and Core Faculty of Art Center College of Design’s ground breaking Graduate Media Design Practices+Field program, and Principal of RCD/LA, his award-winning California-based design practice. Sean’s works focus on 21st century global challenges in local contexts, engaging marginalised communities through design in some of the most exciting and complicated parts of the world. From East Africa to East Los Angeles, Sean leads efforts to impact on the realities of peoples’ lives in positive ways through ground-breaking design. Sean’s works have been included in the Cooper Hewitt National Design Triennial, the California Design Biennial, the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute and recently in Design as Future-Making published by Bloomsbury Press.
Philip De Wulf is a licensed psychologist from the University of Ghent (Belgium) with a track record of more than 20 years in consulting blue chip companies such as Vodafone, FrieslandCampina, Sara Lee, Heineken, P&G, Coca Cola , Port of Antwerp and many more on global marketing and innovation strategy. He is also a Lecturer and Guest Lecturer at the University of Antwerp, Ghent, Maastricht and Illinois. His core belief is ‘design is the key to do good, do well and do better’.
Before joining Yellow Window he spent 2 years as a change agent in the top 40 senior leadership team of Almarai, the world’s biggest vertically integrated food company and nr 33 on the Forbes Global Most Innovative Companies list. As Strategy Partner in Yellow Window he supports clients and designers in product and service design by enhancing their organsation’s dynamic capabilities of sensing (needs), shaping (portfolios) and seising (opportunities).
Working at the intersection of technology, business and design, Ryan’s creative leadership focuses on helping clients and design teams to see business as a creative medium to achieve positive impact for users and inspiring them with the latest possibilities in business and technology.
An engineer by training and a business designer by practice, Ryan has applied his problem-solving tools and design thinking mindset across industries like Finance, Energy, Consumer Goods & Services and Healthcare. From the largest Fortune 500 organisations to nascent start-ups, Ryan has led and guided teams around the world on how to be more human-centered, creatively explore and solve problems, and quickly prototype ideas for users to vote with their wallets.
Rama Gheerawo is an international figure within design, business and innovation and a serial innovator in the fields of technology, products, services and transport with over 100 projects to his name. He works with government, industry and the public sector with a client list that included Samsung, Toyota, P&G, Panasonic, Sony, the NHS and the UK and Hong Kong governments – training around 400 civil servants for the latter on creativity and leadership. He is co-leading a redesign of the London taxi, one of the most significant projects on the globe and has delivered ground-breaking work across a variety of sectors from artificial intelligence to aging and healthcare. Rama has published widely and run highly acclaimed innovation workshops across the globe. He is a Visiting Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of the Arts and was awarded Fellowships at the Royal College of Art and Royal Society for the Arts.
Maxime Szyf has been a designer since his childhood. After product development studies in Antwerp, he worked at Samsonite Europe (Oudenaarde) and Verhaert (industrial design in Antwerp) before starting his own office in 1998. As a Creative Partner at Yellow Window design, he works on products and services in various categories with DESIGN THINKING as core expertise and where the user is central. He combines observation and co-creation, analysis and creativity to guarantee sustainable and measurable ROI (return-on-innovation) for the challenges of a changing world.
