Since its inception, Ben has been at the helm of Design at ELEVEN having co-founded the studio in 1996. With over 40 years of experience, Ben has created numerous innovations for brands including Burton Snowboards, OXO, Herman Miller, Bauer Hockey, P&G, Whirlpool, Keurig, Staples, Sharp, Polycom, Samsung, Titleist, MGB, and Zoll Medical. ELEVEN is a human centered design studio that integrates research, strategy, design, and engineering under one roof, delivering world class design driven growth to its many happy clients and partners. To date ELEVEN has generated $1.3 billion in sales of its licensed products. Ben is also a co-founder of Healthcare Innovation Partners (HIP), a group of designers, engineers, doctors, and entrepreneurs who have come together for the sole purpose of finding, creating, and bringing better healthcare products, medical innovations and devices to life and making them available to the healthcare market. Ben is credited with over 70 patents, numerous awards including IDSA/IDEA, iF, Red Dot, Core77 and Good Design. Publications include Time, Newsweek, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and Innovation. Ben is also a frequent guest speaker, juror and critic at RISD, BC, MIT, WIT, MassArt, CES and IDSA.