President

Stewart Butterfield

Stewart is a recognized leader in the field of online development and design. He directed the 11-member design group (creative/visual/UI, production & QA) at Communicate.com, where he acted as design lead or managed teams on millions of dollars worth of projects for companies like HSBC and Sears Travel. As a principal, he led the re-branding, corporate development and growth — from 100,000 members to 600,000 in under five months — of Gradfinder.com, an alumni community site. He has also had a long consulting interaction design career, most recently with Telus, the CBC and The Economist.

Stewart is a frequent speaker on design and technology topics at professional and academic events across Europe and North America. He founded the 5K competition, a lo-fi, high-profile design award, which has been featured everywhere from Playboy to Le Monde to USA Today. He was recently named to the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and is a nominating judge in the Webby Awards (for Best Practice). He has served in the W3C's XForms working group and has been active in many other professional organizations. He received a BA (Hons. with Distinction) in philosophy from the University of Victoria, and an MPhil in philosophy from Cambridge University, graduating with a First. In 2001, he was nominated for a Chrysler Design Award.

Stewart can be emailed at stewart [at] ludicorp [dot] com

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