We ♥ Chaos – Philip Colligan
Philip Colligan is the executive director of the public service innovation lab, which is developing and testing radical new responses to some of the UK’s most pressing social and economic challenges. Philip joined NESTA in May 2010. Before this he worked for the London Borough of Camden and the Home Office. As assistant director for...
We ♥ Chaos – Juan Mateos-Garcia
Juan Mateos-Garcia joined NESTA as a part-time Creative Industries Research Fellow in autumn 2008. Prior to this, he worked as a researcher on Information and Communication Technology Economics and the Organisation of Software and Video Game Development at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, and CENTRIM at the University of Brighton. Juan...
We ♥ Chaos – Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly
Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly is Director of the Complexity Research Programme, LSE; visiting Professor at the Open University; SAB member to the ‘Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation’, TU Delft; on Editorial Board of ‘Emergence: Complexity & Organisations’; was Coordinator of Links with Business, Industry and Government of the European Complex Systems Network of Excellence, Exystence (2003-2006); Executive...
We ♥ Chaos – Giles Andrews
Giles Andrews, CEO and co-founder Zopa, the world’s first P2P lending and borrowing marketplace. Giles has led the company through a period of dramatic growth that has seen it established as a real threat to traditional players, reaching over 2% market share and £140m in loans. Giles spent the first ten years of his career...
Innovation Overkill – Anne Lise Kjaer
Kjaer is a leading global futurist who stimulates and motivates audiences with out-of-the-box thinking. Her focus is bridging the creative and intellectual processes to stimulate whole-brain thinking within the organisation. She has an exceptional eye for ‘the next big thing’ and an original and inspiring way of navigating the future.Anne Lise works with an A to...
Innovation Overkill – Chris Thompson
Chris is a bit of a hybrid. His career spans engineering, accountancy, design and innovation. Prior to founding Via in 1998, Chris spent 13 years in the global design consulting industry; he was Group Chief Operating Officer of Fitch plc and Managing Director of PSD Associates. While at Fitch he spent 3 years working in the US....
Innovation Overkill – Anna Maybank
Anna is co-founder and Director of not-for-profit company, Social Innovation Camp Ltd. Social Innovation Camp is a launch pad and accelerator for technology-based social ventures. By matching up software developers, designers and people who understand a social problem, the company helps build web and mobile-based solutions to social challenges. Previously, Anna was a researcher for Charles Leadbeater’s book, We...
Innovation Overkill – Steve Heron
Steve Heron – Director of Innovation Steve is responsible for leading and inspiring the Studio teams and their projects from conception through to implementation. ”Design for the user – deliver for the client” is his mantra in bringing business and creativity together to create innovative and actionable solutions that can make a difference in helping...
Remix – Andy Dobson
Andy Dobson is most of neo-classical electronica outfit Digitonal, half of mashup-merchants AGT Rave Cru and, weirdly, looks after Creative Technology at BSkyB. Coming from a strictly classical background, Andy landed in London in ’94, too late for acid house, but just in time for all the culture it spawned, coinciding neatly with the rise of being digital which...
Remix – Loz Kaye
Loz Kaye is Leader of Pirate Party UK. The Pirate Party is a political movement standing for Intellectual Property reform, Internet freedom and civil liberties. Loz has spoken widely on digital issues, Wikileaks and copyright, with appearances on BBC, CNN and Russia Today. He is also a composer working chiefly in theatre. His music has...
Remix – Andrew Piper
Andrew leads RARE, the design business at Clear (an M&C Saatchi Company). He has more than twenty years experience in brand innovation and packaging design development. Andrew has worked in the UK, Paris and Brussels for top consultancies and global clients. As Creative Director at Clear he leads a team of designers and production experts...
Remix – Gordon Synn
Gordon Synn is an entertainment and media industry expert in content distribution, acquisition and creation, digital media, channel services and IP-related licensing rights and deals. Since moving to London from Hollywood over four years ago, his experience includes being presently head of content acquisitions and a principal consultant for SeeSaw.com, the digital media entertainment platform...
