Clive Grinyer is Director of Design at Orange France Telecom. Working in Paris and London, he is developing the next generation of mobile, fixed and internet, and TV communication and entertainment handsets, products and services.

Clive has worked as a design consultant and in corporate design. As a consultant he worked for IDEO in San Francisco and London, was European head of product design for Fitch, and a founder of design company Tangerine with Jonathan Ive (now VP of design at Apple).

As Director of Design for Samsung, he set up the European design team in London, and was head of design for TAG McLaren Audio, a collaboration of the watch and Formula 1 racing brands. He went on to be Director of Design at the Design Council, where he created design demonstration projects, taking the UK’s best designers into UK manufacturing and technology companies.

Clive is passionate about design, and how we can make best use of it for innovation, while preventing the chaos caused by technology-led development.