Paul Thomas has a great deal of experience in the product development world. He has jointly founded three successful companies where he was the development director, several of which have won prestigious awards such as the international Dyson Design Award.
Paul has extensive experience with consultancy work and has been heavily involved in high-end innovative medical device development. He has also been a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art where he has tutored the 2nd year MA/MSc students on the Innovation Design Engineering course, the same course he studied and where he also met Daniel.
Prior to this Paul worked for 8 years at Nokia Mobile phones, working his way up from Graduate Design Engineer to Senior Concept Design Engineer in a specialist group developing Nokia’s future products with key suppliers, technology specialists and a very unique and talented group of Industrial Designers and visionaries. Whilst at Nokia, Paul developed from concept the Nokia 1100, the world’s best selling electrical device (nearly 400 million sold).
Paul has a passion for design and solving problems which sometimes seem impossible to solve.
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Daniel Becerra has over seven years of experience working on design and architectural projects. He has previously run his own design consultancy and workshop in Mexico where he has undertaken work for a number of prestigious clients including Rolex, BMW and the Mexican Government.
Daniel has a first degree in Industrial Design from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and an MA and MSc in Industrial Design Engineering awarded by the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London where he met Paul.
Daniel was one of the founders and the design director of Artica Technologies, a company which created an award-winning, low energy cooling, ventilation and heat recovery system. Since the sale of this company in late 2010 he has been working as a design consultant for international companies such a Barry Callibaut (the biggest producer of chocolate in the world) as well as a number of small start up companies.
He has also developed "the Buffalo project" a portable human power micro generator to bring electrical power to those places in the world where access to the grid is limited but mobile phone penetration is massive.
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