As a Partner at IDEO, Danny serves as an Executive Design Director. With a background in fine art, visual communications and product design, Danny was drawn to the field of interaction design through his interests in visual design and time-based media. He loves working with interdisciplinary teams to shape how we interact with products and services and strives to make the world a better place through focusing on design excellence.

Danny’s deep grounding in interaction design at IDEO has richly intersected IDEO’s transportation and mobility work. Working with many of the world’s leading automotive manufacturers, Danny has helped shaped a variety of innovative Human-Machine Interface touch points for vehicles. Projects include designing for vehicle-to-vehicle interactions, climate and ambience control, vehicle access approaches, gestural interactions, active heads up displays, personal media and device integration as well as wider ranging ownership, training and telematics programs. Many of these engagements have been focused on enhancing safety and positively impacting our ecosystem at large.

Prior to joining IDEO, Danny taught interactive media courses in higher education and consulted as an interaction designer. Today he continues to mentor and learn from other design colleagues by working directly with them across a range of content areas. Danny also remains active in higher education through serving on several design school boards and by lecturing and teaching design modules.

Danny’s award-winning work and perspective have been featured in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, WIRED, BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, the Webby Awards, the IDEA Awards, and has resulted in various patent awards. He has spoken internationally about interaction design and design thinking.

Specialties: Interaction design, transportation design, design thinking, innovation, medical product design, telecommunications product design, website design, vehicle telematics.

Mark is Senior Advisor with the BMW i-Ventures fund, Managing Director of Icebreaker Ventures and a Partner with Birchmere Ventures. Prior, he was a serial CEO and a partner at Trident Capital and VantagePoint. Mark's focus is on battery technology, electric vehicles and how autonomous mobility will change everything about transportation, life, and cities.

Mark is co-founder of Amprius, a Lithium-ion battery company spun out of Stanford. He was an early investor in Tesla. He has served as CEO or on the Boards of numerous companies, including: ELO, the Raychem subsidiary that pioneered the touchscreen; Synxis, acquired by Sabre; Everdream (Dell); Idetek (Idexx); Zing (Sony); and Ancore (Rapiscan). Mark earned a BSE in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan and his MBA from Stanford University. As a Lieutenant in the Navy, Mark was on Admiral Rickover's nuclear submarine engineering staff.