David Connell

19 years experience leading the development of user centred and commercially grounded innovative products across consumer, medical, industrial and defence industries A visionary, design thinking leader adept at identifying commercial opportunities and unlocking new growth categories, tuning and deploying development frameworks, and uniting teams through passion and vision.

19 years of design and product experience spread across agency and in-house, and numerous sectors - all connected by a passionate commitment to deliver outstanding product experiences.

• Category ownership for connected consumer technology; developing category roadmap and ranging strategies
• Leadership of management teams, and matrix management of cross functional research and development teams 
• Combined with significant experience running small, agile, high performance teams
• Significant experience in soft goods (texties) development and manufacture

Product Design Bsc - First Class

Brunel University