Luis Angarita
Innovator Chairman Partner @Cd&i Associates North America
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WORK HISTORY
Innovator Chairman Partner @Cd&i Associates North America
CA
Oversee product, service, and strategy design while leading international creative teams across the Americas. Provide innovation leadership through design thinking, environmental and product design, architecture, and brand strategy, translating insights into solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Develop new business models, coordinate global projects, and strengthen CD & I’s position as a disruptive innovation firm.Achievements: Curated and directed the We Think Exhibition & Masterclass at Design Exchange, Toronto January 18- May 13 (2019). Expanded operations across North, Central, and South America.
EDUCATION
UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
Master’s Degree , Spaces for Innovation
Domus Academy
Master’s Degree, Strategic Design & Corporate Visions
Domus Academy
Industrial and Product Design
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial and Product Design
ABOUT LUIS ANGARITA
Colombo Canadian Innovation consultant and design entrepreneur, master in Design from Domus Academy Milan and master in Environmental Design from UQAM Montreal, convinced that through product design, immersive spaces, engaging strategies, disruptive services and strategic branding, we can accelerate any business and develop successful innovations.Winner of the Red Dot Design Award, three times the steel pencil, recognized with the Prix Arts-Affaires / Arts-Business personality by the Board of Trade and the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Palermo design contest, finalist at the Portfolio of innovation and innovators of America awards and selected by the Madrid and Shanghai Design Biennials.Created the Chair of Strategic Innovation at the National University, where I taught for more than ten years as I did it at the Design Faculty of Los Andes University in Bogotá; I also Directed and Planned the curriculum for the Strategic Design and Innovation graduate program at the UPB university Medellín, Designed the Innovation Lab at the Ibero University in Puebla MX and taught innovation at OCAD University\'s Master of Design (MDes) in Design for Health, Toronto, Ca.Guest speaker at Pratt Institute N.Y, World Design Congress and Concordia University in Montreal, Holon Institute of Technology in Israel, UBA Argentina and Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, among others.Co-founder of CD & I Associates, a Toronto-based innovation firm established in Bogotá in 1995.Over the past 30 years, my innovations and inventions have helped entrepreneurs, startups, and companies such as Weston Foods, Progen, Philips, Whirlpool, Carrefour, Cencosud, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Syngenta, Coca-Cola, Yamana Gold, and LatinArte to achieve faster their goals.I\'m an Associate Professor and Head of the Industrial Design Program at the Design School, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. I also serve as Co-Head of the Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Arizona State University, with the goal of transforming curriculum and faculty into an innovative academic environment. In addition, I\'m the Disruptor at the innovation boutique CD & I Associates.As I did as president of JAVCA in Toronto and our arts and design community with the LatinArte foundation in Montreal, Canada, I am always open to volunteering.Open talk in English, Spanish, Italian or French.Contact me: Ln | Fb | Tw | In :@innovangarita
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