Rajan Dev - Prior to joining Hot Studio as Chief Operating Officer, Dev was the General Manager of the San Francisco office of Modern Media/Digitas for nearly six years. In that role, Rajan served clients such as Hewlett Packard, Intel, Sprint PCS, Michelin North America, Amgen and Charles Schwab delivering interactive marketing strategy and integrated marketing solutions (web, email and print).
Dev holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University, where he focused on Finance and Marketing course work.
Kevin O'Malley - With an international background in cross-cultural communications and linguistics, Kevin O'Malley applies unique training and coaching skills, as well as partnership building, to the world of corporate speaking and events.
His approach successfully brings disciplines such as deconstruction and semiotics into executive development and face-to-face interactions with targeted audiences.
Building on a background in video, multi-media and event production for clients including Atari, The Gap, Clorox, Hay Consulting, Kingsford Charcoal, Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Goodwill Industries, and Foote Cone Belding. Kevin works both ends of a speaking event, from creative content and presentation to working directly with conference producers and meeting planners to create optimum on-site experiences.
Educated at Cornell University, Magna Cum Laude with graduate studies at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Eric Ryan - At age 27, Eric Ryan founded method, a San Francisco-based consumer goods company that has reinvented homecare products with an innovative branding and product design approach. In five short years, method has challenged some of the world’s largest multinationals in home cleaning, laundry, personal care and air care to become the fastest growing consumer products company in the US.
Recently method was named #7 on the Inc 500 list for fastest growing private companies in America. In 2006 he was named PETA’s person of the year and one of Time Magazine’s eco leaders.
Brandon Schauer - Brandon Schauer is an experience design director for Adaptive Path. He speaks on, writes about, and practices design as a means to create value. He has a decade of experience developing new user experiences on the Web, desktops, and products. His passion for finding and understanding the unmet needs of customers has led him to diverse environments, from the homes of cancer patients to tunnels beneath Walt Disney World.
Brandon holds two master-level degrees from schools with the Illinois Institute of Technology, a Master of Design from the Institute of Design in Chicago and an MBA from the Stuart School of Business.
Nathan Shedroff - Nathan Shedroff has been an information and interface designer for over twelve years. He focuses on developing online experiences, building online brand strategies and business models, and developing online communities.
Throughout his career, he has worked in various media and authored several books on multimedia, computers, and information. His electronic experience spans CD-ROMs, kiosks, published titles, application development, and online experiences.
He co-founded vivid studios, a decade-old pioneering company in interactive media. Prior to that, he worked with Richard Saul Wurman as a senior designer at TheUnderstandingBusiness. He earned a BS in Industrial Design, with an emphasis in Automobile Design, from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Conscious Capitalism with panelists Nathan Shedroff, Brandon Schauer, Rajan Dev, and Eric Ryan. Kevin O'Malley moderates the discussion.
Why are there 50 varieties of toothpaste on grocery store aisles? How does this fit into the world's heightened awareness of the need for sustainable business practices, and our own growing individual needs for self-actualization and meaning? Leaders in business, design and innovation will debate why a deeper understanding of human nature needs to be central to a 21st century business strategy and how it can challenge people's attitudes toward consumerism- The Commonwealth Club of California
I produced and moderated this program at the Commonwealth Club - where I'm Vice-Chairman of the Business and Leadership Forum. We did a Part Two in this series on May 13th at the Club and this should be up on FORA TV soon. I would appreciate any comments, insights or links to these programs, as I'm hoping to do more in this series. Please contact me at kevin@techtalkstudio.com Thanks -- and looking forward to hearing from you. -- Kevin O'Malley
when I walk into "best buy", are the employees there to help me the customer, or are they there to serve the share holders of the company, I feel as if they are there to serve the shareholders. this seems like the modern norm and the main shift from mom and pop stores that gave customer service, and not shareholder service.