Mike Nuttall
Mike Nuttall is a British designer who established Matrix Product Design in 1983 in Palo Alto, California. In 1991, his company merged with two other established design firms, David Kelley Design (founded by David Kelley) and ID Two (founded by Britain's Bill Moggridge) to form the designing giant IDEO.
Nuttal studied at Leicester College of Art & Design getting his BA degree in Industrial Design. He continued at Royal College of Art in London receiving his MA degree.
He moved to the States in 1980. From 1983 to 1991, his firm, Matrix Product Design, won more than twenty design awards. Since joining IDEO, he has led development efforts resulting in many successful computer, consumer, and medical products with many major corporations, in the US, Europe and Asia.[1]
He manages IDEO Ventures, an internal venture capital fund making strategic equity and royalty investments in IDEO's client partners. He has also taught in a number of colleges.