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# Kingshuk Das on Tal

## Headline

Strategist, Designer, & Creative Futurist

## About

My mission is to steer tech & business innovation toward broader human value\. As a strategist, designer, and storyteller, I find patterns in chaos, envision possible futures, and map new paths out of current challenges\. This is how I’ve created new businesses & experiences for companies of all sizes — including a new healthcare business for Steelcase, a digital banking platform for JPMorgan Chase, go\-to\-market strategy for FedEx’s new supply chain monitoring tech, new beverage lines for PepsiCo, brain surgery products for Medtronic, and a complex care model for the Children’s Hospital at Stanford\. I have taught design\-driven org transformation at Stanford University and at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business\. I speak, write, and create visual stories about human\-centered systems innovation\.

## Location

San Francisco Bay Area

## Work experience

Managing Director \- Head of Design Strategy at TIAA, 2023 \- 2025 · 2 yrs, New York, United States

Head of Experience Design & Strategy at Bakkt, 2021 \- 2023 · 2 yrs, San Francisco Bay Area, Led Bakkt's Experience Design Vision & Innovation Strategy \(B2B & B2C\), working closely with the C\-suite & Partner companies across fintech verticals\.

Founder & Principal \-\- Innovation Strategy Consulting at Rhizome Labs, 2018 \- 2021 · 3 yrs, San Francisco Bay Area, Strategic Design & Innovation Advisory for startups, not\-for\-profits, and large corporations\. Build world\-class innovation capabilities, raise the ROI of your investments in design thinking, & transform your business through methodological rigor in the analytical \+ creative toolkit of design\-driven innovation\.

Product Innovation, Internal Ventures at JPMorgan Chase & Co\., 2016 \- 2018 · 2 yrs, San Francisco, Led C\-level initiatives to create & develop new digital products, services, and customer experiences across JPMorgan Chase's portfolio of financial services \- retail banking, digital payments, credit cards, lending & investments\.

Head of Design Strategy, Digital Customer Experience at JPMorgan Chase & Co\., 2014 \- 2016 · 2 yrs, San Francisco Bay Area

Head of Healthcare Practice; Director, Strategy \+ Innovation at Jump Associates, 2009 \- 2014 · 5 yrs, San Francisco Bay Area, Planned and led strategic multi\-year engagements with companies such as FedEx, PepsiCo, Stanford Hospital, Kaiser, & Panasonic to design new products; develop new market opportunity spaces & product categories; clarify portfolio & brand strategy; create, test & operationalize new service models; and commercialize new technology platforms globally\.

## Education

Masters in Design, Strategic Design Planning, Illinois Institute of Technology

B\.Arch, Architecture, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

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