Founders of design studios typically come from the agency and consulting world. As clients ourselves, we noticed a consistent gap in the impact of the work and long-term ownership of the recommendations.
We believe design teams should act with the same urgency and ownership as the founders and business leaders they serve. This requires years of built-up scar tissue from working on in-house teams.
That’s why we founded KOPPER: to be a true partner.
Michelle Brier
Partner
Michelle studied Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She was a full stack developer on Flexport's Service Catalogue team (Logistics) and then on Audius' Protocol team (Web3).
She now leads operations and all things technical at KOPPER.
David Zheng
Partner
David studied at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, better known as the Stanford d.school.
He brings over a decade of design leadership experience from venture-backed and Fortune500 companies.
Varun Mashru
Principal
Computer Engineering @ RK University, Tcules
Michael Walker
Director, New Business
Godspeed Labs, Google, Product Design @ the Stanford d.school
Tommy Smith
Technical Advisor
User Experience Design @ Sheffield Hallam University, Bally's Interactive, Degree 53
Nathan Young
Design Director
Founding Designer, Product & Brand, Liberty University
Aaron Brier
Senior Engineer
Engineering @ Amazon AWS, UC Irvine Computer Science
Ala Lee
Brand Lead
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), OKX (Formerly OKCoin), Ethos, John McNeil Studio, WeWork
