Ben brings over 40 years of design expertise to his role as the Jury Lead for the 2025 Core77 Design Awards. As the co-founder of ELEVEN, a trailblazing human-centered design studio established in 1996, Ben has guided transformative innovations across industries for iconic brands such as Burton Snowboards, OXO, Herman Miller, Procter & Gamble, Whirlpool, Keurig, Polycom, Samsung, Zoll Medical, and Mass General Brigham. His leadership at ELEVEN has delivered not only award-winning designs but also measurable impact, with $1.3 billion in sales generated from licensed products.

A prolific innovator, Ben holds over 70 patents and has received prestigious honors, including IDSA/IDEA, Good Design, Red Dot, and Core77 awards. Beyond his design acumen, he co-founded Healthcare Innovation Partners, where multidisciplinary collaboration drives meaningful advancements in medical devices and healthcare solutions. His work has been celebrated in Time, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and other major publications.

Ben is a passionate advocate for the power of design to address complex global challenges. He thrives on working with a diverse team of creatives at ELEVEN, who inspire him daily to envision a better future. As a frequent speaker, juror, and critic at esteemed institutions like IDSA, CES, RISD, MIT, WIT MassArt, and Boston College, Ben engages the next generation of designers with his insights and expertise.

Roy is the Director of Industrial Design at Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Experience Design Center, leading a global team of designers responsible for creating the physical and visual product experiences for the company’s extensive range of products. His team collaborates with user researchers, UX/UI designers, and engineers to conceptualize, develop, and launch innovative laboratory products, analytical instruments, and equipment. Their collaborative efforts are crucial in ensuring that Thermo Fisher Scientific maintains its position as the global leader in serving science.

With nearly 30 years of experience, Roy has provided strategic design leadership to various esteemed brands across multiple industries. Before joining Thermo Fisher Scientific, he led design teams at Shark Ninja and AAC Technologies and spent 12 years at leading innovation, product development, and brand consulting agencies. He has contributed to successful products for Amazon, Andersen Windows, Google, Hasbro, Keurig, Masterlock, Moen, Numark, Pampers, and many others. His work has been featured in publications such as I.D. Magazine, Wired, and Popular Science, and exhibited at venues like CES and the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. Roy’s contributions have earned him over thirty design awards, patents, and numerous business success stories.

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Roy graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design and Sculpture from the University of Arizona and a Master of Industrial Design degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. Roy resides in Boston, MA with his wife, their college-aged son, high school daughter, and their dog, Rambo

Jen is an industrial designer drawing on over 30 years of experience in the design industry, partnering with design firms and working as an independent consultant to design agencies, start-up and corporate clients. She brings a user-centered design approach to develop thoughtful and relevant design solutions. In her work, she believes that a meaningful solution is the balance of defining the right problem to solve, creating a compelling design and user experience, and ensuring translation and delivery of that intent to the user.

She is a chameleon and loves to work, live and play and let design lead the way. Understanding and valuing both cross- and intra-disciplinary teamwork, she enjoys leading and working with multi-disciplinary teams to develop medical and consumer products. Digging deep to discover people and opportunities to tell untold stories and to forge connections between people and products enriches the development of both products and experiences.

Even when she’s not on the clock, Jen is always sketching - in her head or on paper. She loves to wander outside on foot and on bikes, explore and experiment in textiles, practice yoga to open her heart and mind, and knit her experiences together with lots of texture and love in every stitch.

Kris is an Internist and Pediatrician and serves as Vice President of Design Impact at Mass General Brigham Health where he leads the Springboard Studio -with its aim to make healthcare more user-friendly. He is a founding member of the Core Educator Faculty and the Chief Innovation Officer in the Department of Medicine’s Residency Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He founded and is the Director of the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) through the MGH Center for Global Health and is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has worked extensively in low-and-middle-income countries as well as the US to develop innovative solutions to healthcare challenges utilizing design-thinking. He champions humility, empathy, and creative confidence amongst would-be innovators. Kris is a serial innovator, has several patents and has started both non-profit and for-profit ventures to accelerate ideas to implementation. He was named a Tallberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership laureate in 2024.

Originally from rural Canada, he completed a degree in biology at the University of British Columbia, medical school at Vanderbilt University and his residency training in the Harvard Combined Medicine and Pediatrics Program. He obtained a Masters of Public Health at the University of Sydney while a US Fulbright Scholar and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.