As President, CEO and Principal, Mickey leads a highly skilled, interdisciplinary team that creates innovative ways to integrate information and technology into satisfying user experiences. Mickey graduated with honors from the University of Illinois in Chicago, School of Art and Architecture with a BFA in industrial design and extended studies in communication design and mathematics.

Mickey likes to think of himself as the chief mad scientist around here.

In 2005, Mickey spearheaded the launch of MAYA’s Pervasive Computing practice, which focuses on ways to design information objects so that all sorts of data can flow easily among vastly distributed devices, many hidden in the environment. MAYA’s work in pervasive computing has been featured in the Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal.

Mick is a frequent speaker on the need to include the human element in the design of products and services. He was the keynote speaker at ECEF 2007, and an invited speaker at both the 2007 Smart Services Forum presented by Harbor Research and at the 2006 World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress in Washington, D.C. He also spoke at the 2005 M2M (Machine to Machine) Conferences in Amsterdam and Dallas, and at the 2004 M2M Conference in Brussels. At the Public Library Association’s 10th National Conference in Seattle, WA, February 2004, he joined the Carnegie Main Library of Pittsburgh’s redesign director and its circulation services manager to present “Architecting a Pleasurable User-Centered Library Experience.”

Before coming to MAYA, Mick was co-founder and senior vice president of creative vision and strategy at élan communications, an integrated communications consultancy for clients that included Bristol Myers Squibb, MasterCard, Samsung, Nortel Networks, TiVO, and Janssen Pharmaceutica. At élan, he built the creative team that managed the concept, design, and production of the Samsung Electronics pavilion at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The wireless telecommunications rendezvous became a destination for more than a million visitors and was listed as one of the top ten destinations during the games.

For Janssen, Mick’s creative team designed a virtual world where practitioners could experience the symptoms of schizophrenia and become educated on the impact of the disease. This virtual world was featured on “20/20” with Barbara Walters.

Mick’s design awards include the 2005 Consumer Electronics Innovation Award, two Addy Awards for advertising and video production, the AIGA Communications Show Judge’s Choice Award, SuperComm 2000 Best of Show in Design, and the Exhibitor Award for Best Conceptual Design. His articles and work have been published in Innovations, Graphis, and Space magazines.


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