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Mickey McManus

President and CEO, MAYA Design, Inc.

Mickey McManus is president, CEO, and principal of MAYA Design, Inc., a technology design and innovation lab focused on meeting the needs of people in the connected world. To maximize opportunities for innovation at the intersection of users and information, he leads a team of cognitive psychologists, ethnographers, computer scientists, mathematicians, visual and industrial designers, brick and mortar architects, game designers and filmmakers. This team works with a range of clients from Fortune 500 global companies to foundations, government organizations, and startups.

MAYA has been featured three times in the last 18 months as being in the “top 20 best small companies in America to work for” by Fortune Small Business, Inc., and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Mickey spearheaded the launch of MAYA's Pervasive Computing practice, which focuses on ways to take connected experiences out of the lab and into the marketplace through smart products, services, and environments. He speaks nationally and internationally about the future of information and how it will impact humans in a massively connected world of at least a trillion nodes. MAYA’s work has been featured in Harvard Business Review and Wired as well as being selected as award-winning examples of innovation numerous times at the International Consumer Electronics Show.

Mickey holds a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois, with extended studies in communication design and mathematics.

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