David Kelley is the founder and chairman of the global design and innovation company IDEO. He also founded Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, known as the d.school. As Stanford’s Donald W. Whittier professor in mechanical engineering, Kelley is the academic director of both the degree-granting undergraduate and graduate programs 
in design within the School of Engineering, and has been a professor in the program for more than 35 years.