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Curt Bailey

President, Principal
Sundberg Ferar

Curt Bailey joined Sundberg-Ferar in 1983 and has been the firm’s president since 1992.  Founded in Detroit in 1934, Sundberg-Ferar is one of the world’s first and longest operating independent industrial design studios. Curt oversees a team of design researchers, strategic planners, industrial designers, interaction designers, engineers and model builders. This multi-disciplinary team de-commoditizes products for a diverse group of global product brands in a wide variety of industries, including housewares, transportation, medical, recreational and consumer electronics.

Curt is named as primary inventor on scores of US patents and is a frequent writer and speaker on the subjects of innovation and design. He is a 1982 graduate of the industrial design program at the University of Illinois.

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MDC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Jeff DeBoer
  • David J. Byron
  • Katrin Robertson
  • Diane Tamblyn
  • Michelle Zurowick

MDC ADVISORY BOARD

  • Kevin Kerrigan
  • Teckla Rhoads
  • Jeevak Badve
  • Ralph Gilles
  • Brett Kincaid
  • Curt Bailey
  • Guna Nadarajan
  • Tom Granzow
  • Nate Young
  • Paul Hemsworth
  • James Sawyer
  • Matt Clayson
  • Kyle Fleischhacker
  • Gary Smith

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