Accomplices

The people who keep me honest, curious, and always leaning into the Not Yet.

Andy Ruben

From Walmart’s sustainability push to re-commerce startups — Andy was always out front on circularity. Still is.

Fabien Girardin

Design fiction meets data. From LiftLab to Próximo, Fabien keeps dragging me into the future.

George Hudson

A thousand gigs a year, new venues, festivals — George orchestrates culture like jazz. George has a knack for turning neighborhoods into instruments.

Henry Coutinho-Mason

Pattern-spotter, Mesh co-conspirator. From 3Space to open innovation, Henry notices what others miss.

Jonathan Wisler

From startups to scale-ups, Jonathan brings steady hands and a wide-open network.

Kavita Parmar

Organizer of guilds, creator of XTANT; weaving community, care, and emergent practice into culture.

Kiran Jain

Chief Legal Officer turned resilience leader—from Kiva to Oakland’s first Chief Resilience Officer, now shaping public data tools.

Mary Rowe

Urbanist, instigator, city whisperer. Mary has been mapping civic possibility longer than most mayors.

Niels Christian Neilsen

From Danish energy councils to California startups. Niels runs on boards, deals, and civic experiments.

Paloma Tejada Gasset

BBVA, Guil, countless collisions. Paloma brings rigor and spark — equal parts hard analysis and wild ideas.

Patrick Pittman

Listens deeply, catches the threads others miss, and turns complexity into stories people can actually use. Sits with the mess until the shape appears.

Rohit Gupta

Engineer, researcher, designer in Spain. Builds speculative prototypes—from solar cars to empathy toys—that ask, what if?

Seth Godin

A long-time friend and fellow instigator. Still teaching me — and everyone else — how to see.

Simone Cicero

Instigated the Platform Design Toolkit and Boundaryless. Makes orgs think less like towers and more like ecosystems.