David focuses his attention on helping organizations build and launch new ventures, design transformational new business models, and establish novel go-to-market strategies for products and services. He has helped develop platforms such as the Startup-in-Residence program and currently advises Design for Ventures, an IDEO-affiliated venture capital fund that supports design-focused Japanese startups.

Outside IDEO, David is a Clinical Associate Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a Venture Partner at Pritzker Group Venture Capital. He earned his MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his B.A. in International Relations from Boston University. His articles on entrepreneurship and corporate innovation have been published in Forbes, Fortune, Inc. and Entrepreneur magazines.

As a leader in the Business Design discipline, Kerry develops new and sustainable ways to monetize innovations. Her training in linguistics and anthropology gives her a unique understanding of people and the cultural context in which they live. Passionate about designing for women, Kerry co-founded Materna Medical, a medical device startup focused on maternal health. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology, with Honors, from Boston University and an MBA from Stanford University. She completed a fellowship at the d.school at Stanford, and continues to be involved there through lecturing, coaching and mentoring students.

Amy helped clients and design teams approach innovation from a holistic, go-to-market perspective, using business design to bring new ventures successfully to market. An avid supporter of digital fluency in the world of business, Amy is a mentor to startups in the tech and wellness worlds, and has previously advised at accelerators in Singapore and Brazil. Amy earned an MBA from IMD in Switzerland and holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Hampshire. In business and in life, Amy believes that we learn from failure. Outside of the office, she's recently been applying this principle with regularity in the ocean, as she attempts to master the art of surfing.