Brian is a visionary business and design leader, as well as a skilled facilitator and public speaker.

He has been a hands-on, multi-disciplinary Director and consultant for 10 years in Silicon Valley at D2M, a technology-oriented product design and development firm. He has worked with over 30 Silicon Valley startups in such wide ranging sectors as consumer electronics, medical, biotech and industrial. He has consulted on the development of new products for leading companies such as HDTV technologies with Intel and Texas Instruments; drug delivery devices with Johnson and Johnson internal ventures, power tools and safety equipment for Black & Decker and many more.

Brian has adjunct lectured at Stanford University in their foundational design class Introduction to Visual Thinking, and coached students in the Mechanical Engineering, Product Design and d.School program classes.

Brian has an MSME from Stanford University, a BSME from the University of New Hampshire and grew up in Rochester, New York.