David M. Kelley
American businessman (born 1951)
David M. Kelley (born February 10, 1951) is an American engineer, designer, businessman, and educator. He is co-founder of the design firm IDEO and a professor at Stanford University.2
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Born Feb 10, 1951.1
About
He has received several honors for his contributions to design and design education.
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Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedCarnegie Mellon University3
- Date not recordedStanford University3
- Date not recordedBarberton High School3
Kelley was born in Barberton, Ohio. His brother is Tom Kelley, who later became general manager of IDEO and author of The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation.
David M. Kelley received a Bachelor of Science with a major in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973. He received a Master of Science in design from Stanford University in 1977.
He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at CMU. He is married to Katharine C. Branscomb, a former CEO of IntelliCorp, whom he met through mutual friend Steve Jobs.
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Education
Kelley began teaching in the Stanford Product Design program in 1978, after earning his master's. He was briefly a PhD student. In 1990, he became a tenured professor, and was named the Donald W. Whittier Professor in Mechanical Engineering in 2002. In 2004, Kelley led the creation of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, known as the "d.school." For his contributions to the practice and study of design, Kelley has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, Dartmouth and ArtCenter College of Design.
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Career
Occupation: mechanical engineer, industrial design, university teacher, academic, businessperson.5 8
- Date not recordedWorked at Stanford University4 5
- Date not recordedFounded Hasso Plattner Institute of Design6
- Date not recordedFounded IDEO7
Industry
Kelley began work as an engineer, first at Boeing and later at NCR. At Boeing, he was responsible for the design of the Lavatory Occupied sign for the 747 airplane. This experience led him to return to school. In 1977, he earned his master's degree from the Joint Program in Design at Stanford University, popularly called the Product Design program. In 1978, he partnered with another Stanford Product Design graduate, Dean Hovey, to form Hovey-Kelley Design. Hovey left to pursue other interests and the firm was renamed "David Kelley Design" (DKD).
In 1984, he co-founded Onset Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. He also co-founded Edge Innovations, the special-effects company responsible for the whales in the Free Willy movies, among many other film credits. In 1991, Kelley merged DKD with three other design firms (Mike Nuttall's Matrix Product Design in Palo Alto, ID TWO in San Francisco, and Moggridge Associates in London, the latter two founded by Bill Moggridge) to create IDEO, which he ran as CEO until 2000.
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Personal life
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- 14Wikimedia CommonsDavid M. Kelley photo by Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0