Meet the Alliance
Global experience shaping products, brands, environments, and culture.
Leadership Team
David Muyres
A global mobility industry veteran who has held executive positions with automotive companies, academia, and startups, notably serving as CCO of Streetscope, VP at Johnson Controls, and leader of innovation teams at Yanfeng Automotive.
Geoff Wardle
A veteran of automotive design across global companies like British Leyland, Chrysler, SAAB, Ford, and TVS Motors with academic leadership at ArtCenter College of Design, where he founded and ran the Graduate Transportation Systems and Design program until 2023.
Tim Shih
A global transportation designer whose career spans roles at BMW, Volvo, and Yanfeng International (as Global VP of Design and User Experience), combining expertise in architecture, vehicle design, and systems thinking to develop holistic mobility solutions across cultures and disciplines
Llewellyn Wells
An Emmy and Golden Globe-winning producer known for shows like The West Wing and Animal Kingdom, who also served as VP of Communications at Rocky Mountain Institute and founded Living City Block, combining entertainment industry expertise with sustainability leadership.
Board of Trustees
Suzanne Hunt
VP, Policy: Generate Upcycle; Chair, External Advisory Board: Cornell AgriTech; External Sustainability Council Member: Bayer; Senior Advisor: Carbon War Room
Michael Potts
Managing Partner: Advance Wave Partners; Advisory Board: Cadence Capital, Crestone Capital Advisors; Board of Trustees: Institute of Noetic Science; CEO: Rocky Mountain Institute; VP: Intuit
Nate Young
Senior VP: Newell Brands; President: NewNorth Center for Design in Business; Executive VP: Art Center College of Design; Group VP: Johnson Controls
David Muyres
A global mobility industry veteran who has held executive positions with automotive companies, academia, and startups, notably serving as CCO of Streetscope, VP at Johnson Controls, and leader of innovation teams at Yanfeng Automotive.
Llewellyn Wells
An Emmy and Golden Globe-winning producer known for shows like The West Wing and Animal Kingdom, who also served as VP of Communications at Rocky Mountain Institute and founded Living City Block, combining entertainment industry expertise with sustainability leadership.
Advisory Board
Harald Belker
Author: “Pulse”, “Ride”, Co-Author, “Design Concept 1&2”; Design Consultant: Apple, Samsung, Mattel, Anki; Freelance concept artist for the Film Industry
Rob Bennett
Senior Advisor: Partnership for Southern Equity; Founder and former CEO: EcoDistricts and Portland Sustainability Institute; Clinton Foundation
Kevin Bethune
Author, “Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation”; Founder, Chief Creative Officer: dreams • design + life; VP Strategic Design: BCG Digital Ventures
Neil Brooker
C-suite leader in mobility strategy, business and design: BMW Designworks
COO, frogdesign AVP/GM, President EV start-up, T3 Motion, Inc., Director/GM
Porsche Design, Managing Consultant A.T. Kearney, International Automotive
Design (IAD) President.
Bill Browning
Partner: Terrapin Bright Green; Founder, Green Development Services: Rocky Mountain Institute; Founding Member of USGBC.
Corey Clothier
Global Automated Mobility Lead: Arcadis; Autonomous Fleet Integration: ARIBO; Autonomous Vehicle Advisor: ev Transportation Services, Inc.; Founder: Stantec GenerationAV™
Jim Hotary
President & Chief Innovation Officer: Future Shaped; Founder & Chief Technology Officer: Lilypad Labs, Inc.; Associate Director, Advanced Technology: BISSELL Homecare, Inc; Director, xWorks Innovation Center & Director, Electronics Innovation: Faurecia
Jody Ingle
Design Consultant and Board leader Chair, IDSA/ Detroit; Trustee, College for Creative Studies, Chair of Academic Affairs, Trustee, Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, Chair of Facilities.
Michelle Katz
Executive Business and Legal Advisor: Mother Superior; Chief Legal and Business Officer: Botanic Technologies, Inc.; VP Business and Legal Affairs, Universal Studios; Associate Counsel: Paramount Pictures; Associate Counsel: Writers Guild of America West
Matthew Lesh
Vice President – Mobility Tech Practice Lead: WSP in the U.S.; Advisor: Robocist, Inc.; Advisor: Mobility Insight; Managing Director: TESIAC; Business Development & Government Relations Advisor
Heidrun Mumper-Drumm
Engineer and Designer, Professor at ArtCenter College of Design; Chair: LA’s Chief Sustainability Officer Strategic Taskforce/Pando Populous; International Council of Design, Montreal Design Declaration, Partnership for Academic Leadership in Sustainability
Marta Nowak
Christos Yessios Assistant Professor of Architecture: Ohio State University; Founding Principal: AN.ONYMOUS; Technology Innovation Lead: Google R+D Lab for the Built Environment; Lecturer: UCLA Architecture and Urban Design; Architect: Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
Michael Offerman
Senior Director of Strategy: Cactus; User experience and brand consultant for Uber, Hilton, Good Development Group and Mayo Clinic.
Margaret Sanchez
Designer, multimedia communications specialist, and Air Pollution Specialist working with equitable mobility programs at the California Air Resources Board.
Julian Scaff
Associate Chair, Associate Professor & Faculty Director of Masters in Interaction Design: ArtCenter College of Design; Owner: Scaff Design LLC; Board of Advisors: Spatial Labs; Design Director, UX+IxD: Interactivism; Senior Instructor & Lead Instructor, UXDI Program: General Assembly.
Kyle Shelton
Director: Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota; Deputy Director: Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University; Editor in Chief: Mobility in History
Dan Sturges
Mobility inventor and entrepreneur. CEO of Mobilitee, LLC. Creator of the Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (GEM) and the LSV category. Also a mobility design educator. Past work: General Motors, frogdesign, ITS-Davis, Calstart, Local Motors