Design MBA

Tony Daussat is an award-winning designer currently working as a Lead Experience Design Strategist at Bottle Rocket Studios in Dallas, TX.  He has worked with some of the world’s most exacting brands including: Hyatt, KFC, BaylorScott & White, Dave & Busters, Fiesta Restaurant Group, Caesars Entertainment, TripCase, FirstData, and Robert Half, to name a few. He has started and sold two online comp...

Gary Gattis is a creative interdisciplinary leader guiding people and processes to improve our world. His specialties include growth, operations, and management. He has founded several companies at the intersection of technology and design, and led extremely diverse teams to success. He is currently CEO for Hypergiant Galactic Systems, focussed on integrating Artificial Intelligence with the comme...

GUEST BIO: Cassini Nazir is a designer of conversations, curriculum, and interfaces. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of North Texas where he teaches class in design thinking. Prior to joining UNT, he taught interaction design at UT Dallas. He recently served as Designer-in-Residence for the SMU Masters in Design and Innovation program. Previously, he was Director of Design a...

GUEST BIO: Ryan Burke is an experienced senior sales and business development executive, specializing in scaling early stage companies and driving enterprise level sales. Most recently, Ryan was the Senior Vice President of International for InVision, the leading design collaboration platform used by 4 million people worldwide and 100% of Fortune 100 companies.  Ryan is also an active angel invest...

GUEST BIO: Ryan Rumsey is the CEO and founder of Second Wave Dive, where he develops boutique leadership programs for professionals in the digital product and services industries. Second Wave Dive has worked with product, design, and executive leaders from companies like Google, IBM, Lyft, Workday, ConsenSys, Autodesk, and ANZ. Ryan has a hybrid background in interaction design, front-end developm...

Stephen is currently the Chief of Staff for the office of the CEO at InVision App. Stephen was an early member of the team, helping scale the org from 30 to 850+ fully distributed team members over the past 5 years. He's passionate about digital product design, building organizational infrastructure, and engaging with his community. Previously Stephen helped build out InVision’s partnerships, corp...

What is the Design MBA podcast about? Why did I start it? Most importantly, why the heck should you even listen to it? For show notes please visit: www.designmba.show To learn how to become a design entrepreneur, please visit my blog: www.blog.designmba.show Connect with me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE: https://www.sneakpeek.desig...