Meet the Nokia Venture Studio Team: Jose de Francisco
We’re excited to introduce Nokia Venture Studio’s founding members, Jose de Francisco, Olli Mannerkoski and Tuomo Kekoni, as well as other valuable members of our team. Backed by design experience and equipped with eagerness to provide advanced solutions, the Nokia Studios team takes an interdisciplinary approach to new ventures. We’re a tight-knit team of serial innovators, and we deliver exceptional work by championing Quality Experiences by Design.
Jose de Francisco
Jose de Francisco is the Chief Designer at Nokia Software and the Co-Head of Nokia’s Chicago Innovation Center. His professional experience encompasses interdisciplinary leadership responsibilities in strategy, product management, research and new ventures.
Award-winning designer and a Distinguished Member (DMTS) of Bell Labs for work on next generation mobile platforms and applications, Jose holds several active patents and an extensive design portfolio featuring 20+ brands. He has served with the Advisory Boards for MIT’s Institute of Data, Systems and Society (IDSS), Illinois Tech’s Entrepreneurship Center, and is currently engaged with Design & Innovation Global, the think tank behind the leading Design Thinking conference series in the United States.
Jose holds several professional certificates in Design and Data Science from MIT, earned an MBA in International Marketing and Finance from Chicago’s DePaul University as a Honeywell Europe Be Brilliant Scholar, as well as postgraduate degrees in Human Factors Engineering and Business Administration from BarcelonaTech (UPC) and Ireland’s University College Dublin (UCD) respectively. He started his academic life in the Industrial Design program of Barcelona’s Massana Art & Design Center as an Epson Scholar.
Passionate about innovation, he believes in the exceptional value that comes with consistently delivering Quality Experiences by Design (QXbD), and his endeavors can be followed on innovarista.org.
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