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iGNITIATE ( www.iGNITIATE.com ) is where firms come to uncover, design and launch new, game changing products & services born from design thinking led, R&D efforts, coupled with continual innovation leadership training to sustain a corporate culture of breakthroughs. iGNITIATE, utilizes our focused "strategize, sketch & ship", new product development model in conjunction with our creative disruption model to produce immediate, tangible returns to achieve what competitors cannot: breakthrough products and services while fostering a continuous pipeline of new product innovations in our clients firms.Our team of designers, engineers, strategists, and new product launch execution specialists each have an average of two decades of experience in product launch and design efforts working with Fortune 500 organizations worldwide, R&D labs, private and family offices as well as universities and governments around the globe.

gregorysung ( www.gregorysung.com ) the design brand represents the relationship between parent manufacturers - uppercase, and the child creator mindset - lowercase, as the openess of the child eye can in fact create a parent by working through sculpting, experimenting in design studios, machine shops & research labs. • international products designed for firms such as MAGIS:itlay, ROCHE BOBOIS:paris, E-MY, PHILIPS DE PURY:usa, CRISTINA GRAJALES:usa, GUZZINI:itlay, ATC:guatemala, LONDON DESIGN COUNCIL:uk, BANNANA REPUBLIC:usa, DIETEKER:switzerland, LIGNE ROSET:paris, ARTEMIDE:itlay & many others. • numerous interviews, articles, and profiles in international design and architecture magazine publications • industry awards including: best of ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST; best of ELLE DECOR magazine; an INDEX design nomination for SHINE-ON with ATC and the government of guatemala; TL magazine netherlands, international design duo award, and many others

AWARDS: • Most Inspiring Professor - ENPC Executive & PhD Engineering/MBA Program for "New Product Design & Development for International Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship" https://bit.ly/36JoAkJSELECTED PROGRAMS INCLUDE: • Harvard Master in Design Engineering Program - www.mde.harvard.edu• ESB École Supérieure du Bois PhD Program for New Product Development - www.esb-campus.fr• ENPC Doctoral Engineering PhD/MBA Program: Paris, France - www.enpcmbaparis.com• d.School @ Paris Tech: Paris France: - www.dschool.fr/en/experts• Royal College of Art: Innovation Design Engineering: London, UK - www.rca.ac.uk• Parsons School of Design Paris: Paris, France - www.parsons-paris.com• Lucerne School of Art & Design: Lucerne, Switzerland - www.hslu.ch• University of Connecticut: Storrs, CT, USA - www.uconn.edu • IFM Executive MBA program: Paris, France - www.ifm-paris.com• European School of Economics: Rome & Milan, Italy - www.ese.eduSELECTED FULL SEMESTER COURSES & EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS DELIVERED:• PhD Engineering/MBA II: New Product Development;• PhD Engineering/MBA II: The Artist’s Way - The Innovation Mindset For New Product Dev.• PhD Engineering/MBA II: New Product Development : Innovation and Renovation;• PhD Engineering/MBA II: Entrepreneurialism & Innovation;• PhD Engineering/MBA II - Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation for New Product Development;• CiM: International Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship for New New Product Development;• PhD Engineering/MBA II: Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship For Int’l. New Product Design;• PhD Engineering/MBA II: Marketing of Innovative Services;• MBA II – Strategic Management & Innovation• BA III – Designing for European Businesses• BA III – Design for New Product Development• BA IV – Research Methods for New Product Development • BA IV Honors – HR & Team Building• BA IV Honors – International Project Management

SELECTED LECTURE SERIES & INDUSTRY PANELS: • Research & Development & Design For Radical Innovation Breakthroughs: Harvard MDE + Harvard GDS + Harvard SEAS Program: Boston, USA• Igniting The Design Mindset In 'New Normal' Design & Innovation Efforts: University of Bologna Italy's Advanced Design Unit• Open Innovation Summit: How Design, Design Thinking And The Da Vinci Mindset Radically Effects Open Innovation Success: Berlin, Germany • Innovation Live: Leveraging The Forza Of Design Thinking To Manifest Breakthroughs: Barcelona, Spain • The CLIO Awards: New York NY https://clios.com/clio_juror/nojs/1449• Cannes Lions Awards: Cannes, France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPRNuxppp7c• The President Clinton $1M HULT Prize - Regional & International Judge: London, UK• Designing for Innovation & Start-up Success - Center for High Rate Nano Manufacturing: Boston• Innovation Enterprise - Chairman: Global Leadership Summit: New York, NY• Global DIY Summit - D–>DT–>DIY: Design, Design Thinking & the DIY of Tomorrow: London, UK• A'​ Design Awards - Industry Judging Panel: Milan, Italy• FBN Family Business Network - Utilizing Design + R&D for National Growth: Kiev, Ukraine • World Retail Congress - The Disruptor's Series: Design + R&D Models for Retail: Paris, France • True Start & True Capital R:evolution Conference: London, UK• IFM - New Product Design & Innovation in the Luxury World: Paris, France• University of Conn – Emerging Technology Development - Historical Perspectives & New Markets• Designing in 2058 – Technology, Business and Innovation Acceleration: Fusionopolis, Singapore• University of Lucerne – Future Imperfect: Innovation, Compromise & Evolution: Switzerland• Go Green Expo – Executive Panel: New York, NY• Gov Of Singapore – Singapore International Design Advisory Panel: Fusionopolis, SingaporePARTNER SPEAKER BUREAUS: • London Speakers Bureau Worldwidehttps://bit.ly/4bGVorg

Joining Damian Mogavero 1yr before the formal founding of Avero in 1998 and working with the team at Avero through the firms several successful rounds of venture financing and through the v2.0 launch of Avero's Slingshot system responsibilities included: designing and developing the companies product lines, product requirements & coordinating product launches with the CEO & CTO; identification for new office space, design and build-out of office space; technology & product development recruiting; market segmentation analysis; and conducting staff member performance reviews with CTO and CEO. In 2001, after 9/11 and a necessary downsizing from 70+ to <20, Avero shifted from a B2B supplier based order processing system to a B2C web based software solution creating the opportunity to launch iGNITIATE.

At the Xerox PARC Labs the the focus was detailed product design for MobileDoc - a P2P and Internet based system for beta level smart phones, two-way pagers and some of the worlds first personal Digital Assistant devices. MobileDoc was a fully integrated DropBox platform with PayPal functionality in 1998, a full 8yrs before DropBox ( or any such firm ) was launched. Efforts included product design, functional design, contracting with outside market research firms for focus groups in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago and London took place. Version 0.5 & 1.0 product lines were launched with the Cambridge UK research and development team and primary B2B OEM manufactures. Later MobileDoc was moved from the Xerox PARC Labs to the PARC Venture Labs and then onto to a full operating division in Xerox, and a transition to Avero Inc., a NYC pre-stage start-up took place.

Again, this was a 1st member assignment to a new 10 person team at CertCo / Banker Trust ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certco_%28financial_services%29 ) launching Acquire - an internet based micropayment system with the capability to support <1 cent transactions and electronic bill delivery 3yrs before PayPal's efforts. I came to join the founder, Peter Freund to lead designers & internal developers to produce beta systems and to contract with strategic partners for product integration of the Acquire system with firms such as Ebay, the New York Time and many others. Acquire and CertCo were later rolled back into BT and was the basis for PayPal before PayPal existed anf for which CertCo won a 13m patent infringement lawsuit against PayPal based on R&D from my teams efforts. Micropayment and digital payment technologies developed at CertCo / BT were then applied to mobile platforms in the R&D and pre-launch stage at the Xerox PARC labs in Palo Alto; Cambridge, England; Sophia Antipolis, France and Fuji Xerox Japan.

Again, it was a 1st in opportunity, this time as the lead member of a digital payments based research and development project at The American Management Systems AMSCAT Labs ( http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Management_Systems ) resulting in a digital micropayment system concept & system architecture, patent application & client trial implementations with specific international AMS business units and external telecommunication and banking clients 5yrs before PayPal began. An extra benefit was the submission for publication of Utilizing Multimedia Systems - An Emerging Technology for Today. (c) 1994 paper as a mechanism to apply micropayment systems to multimedia systems of the then emerging internet. At the end the project was rolled into several international telecommunications business units projects launched in Germany which led to applied research on a digital payment & certificate technology system for Bankers Trust.

1st of 5 people in a new business unit of of American Management Systems ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Management_Systems ) and THE LINK team - the first statewide integrated child welfare system in the US. Working directly with Connecticut Department of Children and Family directors to create strategic direction, complex user requirements issues were solved with the head of child welfare services for Connecticut and 10 regional offices. As functional leader the assignment was to design & launch several modules including: adoption, family assessment, and foster care as well as being the lead technical developer and product tester through the general and detailed design phases of the project. Currently that system is in place in 40+ states in the US and was the largest revenue producing business unit at AMS for more than 10 years.

Master'S Degree, Ms Design

• Full scholarship - Negley Flinn Charitable Trust for Education • Recipient: Tobias Rehberger, Artexperience Scholarship.

Medieval History - Selwyn College

Concentration: Philosophy of Science and Medieval Society.

Bs, Information Systems Part Of The Engineering For Manufacturing Program

• President/Captain Speech & Debate Society: created top 10 nationally APDA ranked team in 3 yrs. • Undergraduate Thesis: Utilising.