Jerry O’Leary arrived in the New World from his native England in 1999 to join IDEO Chicago. A former industrial design intern who has co-lead the Cxd practice in the Chicago studio, Jerry was a design director serving IDEO’s Chicago, Boston and New York locations.

His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Dave Vondle is a technologist and entrepreneur who specializes in crafting technologies into designs that showcase the unique quality of the technologies. With a background in Electrical Engineering, he spent 8 years at IDEO as an Interaction Designer using his background to bring designs from sketches into working prototypes to inform the design process.