Marco Perry is a founder of Pensa, a product strategy, design and development firm located in Brooklyn, New York. Marco has 20 years experience designing and engineering just about everything: from diapers to cereal bars, insulin pens to fruit cutters, lab equipment to hardware tools. Marco has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and a Masters of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. Marco enjoys lecturing, judging competitions and organizing and participating in conferences for the design and business community. Marco's work has earned several awards from IIDEX/Neocon Gold, BusinessWeek/IDEA awards, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design awards, Appliance Design award and Medical Design Excellence awards. Currently, Marco is a board member of, and the Northeast District VP for, the Industrial Design Society of America.