Alberto Villareal

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Alberto Villarreal leads the Industrial Design Team at AGENT and brings 10 years of award-winning product development expertise.

His role at the company is key in the integration of strategic business vision and design leadership. Before joining AGENT, he gained experience at major design studios in Germany (Johnson Controls Advanced Design), Italy (Pininfarina) and the USA (LUNAR).

His work been recognized by a large number of publications worldwide and international design awards such as: red dot – best of the best, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award, iF Hannover Product Design Award, and IDSA/ Business Week Industrial Design Excellence Award, among others.

His experience covers a variety of industries and products such as: sports equipment, transportation, consumer electronics, high-tech medical devices, furniture, toys, and appropriate technology. Previous clients include: Adidas, Nike, LeapFrog, Hewlett-Packard, Fila and SanDisk (to name a few).

He obtained a Bachelor Degree in Industrial Design from UNAM (Mexico) and a Masters Degree in Transportation Design from Umea University (Sweden). He combines his professional activity with academic involvements as well as development of philanthropic projects with organizations such as Engineers Without Borders, Project H Design, and he’s founding director of the non-profit group “Razón Social”.