Tom Hazzard Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Orange County, California Area

CEO and Co-Founder of the largest podcast post-production company and alternative monetization hosting platform, Tom is reinventing brand marketing with an obsessive focus on you, the podcast or videocast host. Podetize builds simple, easy-to-use solutions to help you and your brand look and sound like pros, get rewarded for original content creation, and retail and monetize your valuable intellectual property and platform authority. We ensure that you are seen, heard, found, and rewarded in a noisy digital world and able to do what you do best - edu-tain and grow an engaged audience.

Irvine, California Area

Based in Orange County, California, product designer and design expert Tom Hazzard has spent more than 24 years living and designing together with his partner and wife, Tracy Hazzard. For clients they solve the problem of what to make, how to make it stand out with women and men, and most importantly, what it takes to make it competition-proof. Collectively they have designed and developed 250+ retail products that generate more than $950 million dollars in revenue. They hold over 37 utility and design patents with an 86% commercialization rate – double the USPTO-reported national average. They know what it takes to fight Goliath for patent infringement and win and why it’s not worth it (their experiences are even featured in an entrepreneurship course in the Harvard Business Review and taught in 26 countries). Tom has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Industrial Design and has done award-winning work developing designs in the US and Asia for well-know retailers and brands like Martha Stewart Living, Target and X-Rocker Gaming. Tom’s expertise has been featured in television spots on FX Breakfast Time and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, as well as magazines such as Wired, HFN and CNN Money. In June 2015, his 3D Print WOW Tie design won Outstanding Work from the China World 3D Printing Tech Alliance.Tom is a Faculty/Mentor for CEO Space International and regularly speaks to and coaches entrepreneurs and marketing teams to rethink their content conversion strategy to design success into the process, deliver their brand (or thought-leadership) promise, and convert to profits.

San Diego, Ca And Anji, China

Embedded exclusive consulting-based research, design and development of retail office seating and materials. Specializing in understanding consumer interests and value-added market needs for the mass merchants, office and electronic super stores and translating into successful designs.

Irvine, Ca

Grew the furniture business unit from zero to 10% of company sales within 2 years and established first company placement at Wal-Mart estimated at $20 million in annual sales. Directing all aspects of design, research and development including advising on vertically integrating factories in Asia of procedures and systems for design, engineering development, testing, quality control and manufacturing.

San Ramon, Ca

Market research and creative direction for development of successful mass market home office and entertainment furniture products. Transformed a trading company into a design led organization. Mentored designers to understand the unique opportunities and pitfalls of designing products for manufacture in Asia.

Jamestown, Ny

Built relationships with buyers at mass and superstore retail as a furniture design expert, assessing and balancing their needs with the needs of the end user through strategic direction of an 18-person design and development engineering team. In the first year, successful designs resulted in placement of over 48 retail products representing over $100 million in annualized sales.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Furthering the relationship between design and use, ttools designed and produced a patented line of accessories for mobile devices. Won the regional Working Woman Entrepreneurial Excellence Award for Original Product in 2000 and was featured in such publications as Fortune Small Business and Wired. Successfully negotiated a patent infringement settlement with IDEO and Palm Computing that validated ttools’ IP, brought royalties and was a deterrent to future infringers.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Member of a team of designers who combined creativity and innovation with thorough research to design inventive products for clients like: Herman Miller, Bissell, Inc., Sassy Baby Products, Clark American, Mobile Office Vehicle, Women's design Consortium, Steelcase, Ameriwood Furniture, Crate & Barrel and Ethan Allen.

Bfa, Industrial Design/Furniture

Activities and Societies: IDSA Member 1989-2004

Education record