Naveen Kumar

Naveen is a design strategist with 11 years of combined experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Prior to starting Graynule, he has worked in Innovation Domain as Design Manager at Aditya Birla Consumer Insights and Brand Development (ABMCPL) and Innovation and Design Centre, Godrej and Boyce Mfg. Co. During this duration he worked on promoting Intra-preneurship, mentoring teams of engineers, designers and businesses guiding them on their innovation journey and create value for the consumers and the organization.

Prior to his stint at corporates, he completed degree of Master of Design from National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar. He also pursued a start-up after his under graduation of B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering. During his master's degree, he along with his team, also won NASSCOM Social Innovation Honour 2014 for coming up an innovative IT based solution to the low voter turnout ratio during election in India.

He is skilled at System Design, Service Design, New Product Development, Design Research, Innovation Management, Design thinking, User Research, Prototyping, Organizational Design, User Research, and Usability Testing.

At Graynule, he has lead diverse projects involving neurocognitive and behavioural studies, new business germination, trend research, service design, and help the clients identify possibilities of innovative opportunities. He often brings a unique perspective to the given problem or context and help the projects follow an unprecedented roadmap.

He is an enthusiastic flautist baker and likes to treat people around by coming up a fresh and innovative cookie recipes. He is a good listener and always up for exploring new things.

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